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stlsaint
August 16th, 2009, 05:27 AM
i working on a acer aspire 5610z and after an update i cant use wireless...posted in wireless section and got nothing...but i had to use a proprietary driver and so after the long process of getting that to work i was able to activate in my hardware section but now when i click on my network manager applet all my options are grayed out until i connect thru ehternet cable then my autoeth0 becomes lit but i can not connect wirelessly to anything...i dont even have the option to and yes wireless i checked to be enabled!!! please help!!!
lspci | grep Wireless...gives this

"05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)"

i have tried many solutions but none work!!

x22
August 16th, 2009, 07:38 PM
have you tried the kernel modules "ath5k" or "ath9k"?

stlsaint
August 17th, 2009, 02:55 AM
not sure just what you mean?