Asus EEE 1001P wireless & mobile broadband

[zweiundzwei]

I just got a new Asus Eee 1001P, and the wireless isn't working at all. I had an Asus EEE 1005HA before that and since both use the AR8132 network card I hoped it would be the same problem as with that, where installing the backports fixed the problem. However, that doesn't do anything. With the 1005HA the connection was only flaky and disconnected a lot, but the 1001P doesn't find any networks to connect to at all. Also, the mobile wireless will connect only once and after disconnecting every attempt to reconnect ends in that connection symbol spinning wildly until I tell the network manager to disconnect. On Kubuntu it doesn't even connect once.
I never had that problem with the 1005.

$ lspci
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 002c (rev 01)

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

[pdc]

if you now ask

lspci -n

it may something like 00:01.0 0601: 10de:0548 (rev a2)

the final VendorID: product ID may help identify your device more clearly

[zweiundzwei]

Yay, help's coming

I wasn't sure which one of those you'd need, here's the full output

$ lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:a010
00:02.0 0300: 8086:a011
00:02.1 0380: 8086:a012
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 0604: 8086:27d6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27bc (rev 02)
00:1f.2 0106: 8086:27c1 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 02)
01:00.0 0200: 1969:1062 (rev c0)
02:00.0 0280: 168c:002c (rev 01)

[pdc]

I think your device is this

02:00.0 0280: 168c:002c (rev 01)

and if you then google on that Vendor ID: Product ID

..... seems like folks are using ndiswrapper;

ideal though if you could find a linux driver

but see here

http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/show....php?t=1396074

this thread is running concurrently

and

http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8652151

and particularly post #3

here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1369304

someone suggests the device is an ar2427

google on ubuntu ndiswrapper for how to install but I think several of these threads give the commands, if that is the route seems the best to you

[pdc]

actually

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...-wireless.html

looks like your device uses the

ath5k

driver

If you google

ubuntu ath5k

and see how you get along

eg

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=987955

but this is an old post ...........

suspect this driver may be available in the kernel? experts please?

what does

lsmod | grep ath

give you?

or

lsmod | grep ath*

[zweiundzwei]

Awesome. Thanks for all those links, they were really helpful.
http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/show....php?t=1396074 did the trick -- I'd tried ndiskgtk before, but I always used the drivers from the Atheros website, and they didn't work.

However, now the network manager doesn't seem to recognize my mobile broadband stick at all anymore. This has never been a problem before, it would at least notice the stick, if not connect. Any ideas? It's a Huawai S4011.