{"id":620,"date":"2011-06-24T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-06-24T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T09:24:27","slug":"after-10-years-trying-fedora-again-wireless-fails-and-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2011\/06\/after-10-years-trying-fedora-again-wireless-fails-and-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10 Years, Trying Fedora Again; Wireless Fails and Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started using Linux back in 1997 when a buddy and I put Slackware, floppy by floppy, onto a Pentium 133.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t start using it full time until a couple years later, when Microsoft started requiring online registration with product keys.\u00a0 Since then, I\u2019ve used Red Hat, Gentoo, Debian, Arch and Ubuntu.\u00a0 I abandoned Red Hat because of \u201cdependency hell\u201d, which the other distributions avoided entirely.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s been about 10 years, and as I\u2019ve tracked Red Hat\u2019s dismissal, and subsequent rewarming to, the desktop market, I have noticed that Red Hat, Fedora Core, and finally Fedora have learned from Ubuntu and made a better experience for the casual user.<\/p>\n

So I installed the just-released\u00a0Constantine<\/a> to see how it measured up to my beloved Debian-derivatives I\u2019ve been using the past few years.\u00a0 I installed it on a netbook that I love: the\u00a0Asus EEE 1002HA<\/a>.\u00a0 The verdict?\u00a0 Yeah, it just works.\u00a0 It has a smooth boot up, detected screen resolution well, has good sound support, allowed me to customize tap-to-click and scrolling on the touchpad, and allowed me to set up dvorak and rebind caps-lock to control simply and easily.\u00a0 What didn\u2019t work so well?\u00a0 The Atheros AR928x chipset, which is why I\u2019m posting this.<\/p>\n

Short version: the Atheros AR928x is supported by the open-source code contributed by Atheros to\u00a0MadWifi<\/a> under the driver name \u201cath9k\u201d, which is the kernel module Fedora 12 loads to support this hardware.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the version included is a bit behind the times, and causes odd intermittent connectivity issues when associating with access points, which effectively makes the wireless on the machine next to useless.\u00a0 The good news is that it is easy to fix.\u00a0 Here we go:<\/p>\n

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  1. Update.\u00a0 Get root on the command line and type \u2018yum update\u2018.<\/li>\n
  2. Install your development tools so you can compile things.\u00a0 As root: \u2018yum groupinstall \u201cDevelopment Tools\u201d \u201cLegacy Software Development\u201d\u2018.<\/li>\n
  3. Head over to the download site for\u00a0compat-wireless<\/a> and download the\u00a0latest version<\/a> of the ath9k driver.\u00a0 Uncompress it.\u00a0 Navigate to the directory it is in on the command line.<\/li>\n
  4. Select the ath9k driver: \u2018.\/scripts\/driver-select ath9k\u2018<\/li>\n
  5. Build: \u2018make\u2018<\/li>\n
  6. Install: \u2018make install\u2018<\/li>\n
  7. Unload your current ath9k driver: \u2018make unload\u2018<\/li>\n
  8. Load the new driver: \u2018modprobe ath9k\u2018 (or simply reboot)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There were lots of discussions across the web about various hacks and methods to get ath9k to play nicely with the AR928x chipset, but this seemed to be the most straightforward approach to me, and it seemed to work really well, so I thought I\u2019d post it here in hopes it would be useful to someone.\u00a0 Happy hacking!<\/p>\n

    Source: etherplex.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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