[Mageia-discuss] Mageia wlan problem.

[Donald Stewart]

On 15 January 2013 19:51, Alexander Steidel
<alexander.steidel at freenet.de> wrote:
> I am using Mageia 2 and my wifi is the Atheros ub 91
> it is built in on the msi fm2 a75ia e53 motherboard;
>
>  in the network center i can see the wifi wlan part. but there is an
> error message that they cant find the device for the driver ath9k.htc
> the build in bluetooth adapter is not working too.
>
>
> Am 15.01.2013 16:56, schrieb Maurice Batey:
>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:40 +0100, Alexander Steidel wrote:
>>
>>> i just installed magei 2 with gnome  but i had a problem with the
>>> atheros wlan.
>>> is there a way that i can activate the wlan feature ?
>>    If you tell us how and when the problem manifested itself, someone
>> might be able to help.
>>
>> The WiFi problem I had with Mageia-2 was that one of the s/w updates
>> broke it - it could no longer connect to the router.
>>     What worked there was to use MCC to install
>> "kernel-network-nonfree" (a suggestion I found when Googling for the
>> problem) - but that didn't solve the Mageia-3 WiFi problem I later had..
>

I have no experience with atheros cards, but with intel ones, after
loading the driver a reboot is required before the card can be
initialized. THis could be similar to the issue you are having.