THANKS LONI
My Acer Aspire D250 Notebook has this wireless lan card:
lspci # get the wireless lan info
01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
and the ath9k module is flakey
1. So let’s first get the Linux Version we’re running:
uname -a # get linux kernel version number
Linux Nelson 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
2. so I installed the following:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-(KernelVersionGoesHere)
ex: sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-16-generic
(you must do this (install backports) with any kernel upgrade.)
3. reboot!
No more flakiness!
Didn’t work? No problem:
sudo apt-get purge linux-backports-modules-(KernelVersionGoesHere)
ex: sudo apt-get purge linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-16-generic
reboot!
gone!
Wayno
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I’ve got an AR9k in my new ASUS notebook and it works out of the box in Ubuntu 9.10… Sorta. It drops connection every 5-10 minutes. I’ve read that this is fixed in the 2.6.32 kernel.
I have Acer Aspire One and wireless worked out of the box.
Thanks for the tutorial.