Can't connect wirelessly
Posted: 30 Jun 2016, 01:09
Hi, another n00b here. I can't get 3.1 to connect wirelessly, the scan shows no results. I'm able to make a wired connection, and IIRC Kiosk worked fine but wasn't what I needed. xpns-tool showed no networks, and when I tried pns-tool manually it hung at "wait for dhcpcd" and showed no debug info. I've spent a week learning and looking, and I think it might be a driver issue. I saw a post somewhere about blacklisting wl, but I don't have the file path it showed so I don't know where that file would go. It's not a hardware/software block. I've posted the bits it seemed from my searches can be used to figure this out, but let me know if there is other info needed. I appreciate any help I can get!
dmesg
[ 9.298342] ath: phy0: Disable PLL PowerSave
[ 9.322985] ath: phy0: Enable LNA combining
[ 9.338224] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 9.338228] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 9.338233] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 9.338235] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 9.412484] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 9.412804] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9485 Rev:1 mem=0xffffc90005180000, irq=17
[ 9.979755] wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 9.979759] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 9.982625] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
lspci -knn
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6627]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k, wl
iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
ifconfig
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether MY MAC ADDRESS txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
dmesg
[ 9.298342] ath: phy0: Disable PLL PowerSave
[ 9.322985] ath: phy0: Enable LNA combining
[ 9.338224] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 9.338228] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 9.338233] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 9.338235] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 9.412484] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 9.412804] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9485 Rev:1 mem=0xffffc90005180000, irq=17
[ 9.979755] wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 9.979759] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 9.982625] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
lspci -knn
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6627]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k, wl
iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
ifconfig
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether MY MAC ADDRESS txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0