Ubuntu – Atheros wifi not working 12 LTS

12.04atheroswireless

I know this question has been discussed thousand times, but I think my situation is little bit different.

I am using a Giada Mini PC this model

The wifi works well with Lubuntu (light version of Ubuntu) but it does not work with Ubuntu. I tried most of the work around in askubuntu and other blogs but it does not seem to work. Please find below detailed information of the install

lscpi -nn
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:0037] (rec 01)

If I modprobe ath9k and ath5k drivers the dmesg does show some wifi antenna details but the wifi (wlan0) does not appear in ifconfig/iwconfig. I did service networking restart but no luck. I also tried that nohwcryp=1 for atheros drivers no luck.

Appreciate any help to get wifi work on this. Moreover, If you are suggesting any apt-get based installation please note that I can't connect wired connection to this so won't be able to go apt-get over internet. I could only download packages in USB stick and install it manually.

Looks like the driver does not has support for 168c:0037 Device ID

Best Answer

Finally I managed to get it worked. There are two ways to fix it.

  1. Upgrade your ubuntu to 12.10, as it does has updated driver to support the Device ID and type.

  2. Download the compact driver pack, compile install the wifi driver if you are running 12.04 LTS. To do that a) Install all development packages

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2012/12/19/<latest-one>.bz2
./scripts/driver-select ath9k
make
make install
exit
reboot

It should fix it. In my case upgrading the distro take a toll on my resolution. I am using a Mini PC as already mentioned now I guess I have wrestle with the X11 conf to get back my display.

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