[CentOS] Wireless connection issue - athero 9300 pci wireless card

[Earl Ramirez]

On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 12:40 -0500, Xianyi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to CentOS. I built myself a desktop with an additional PCI 
> wireless card 'TP-LInk WPN3800', which I have checked needs an ath9k driver.
> *
> **04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 
> Wireless LAN adaptor*
> 
> Following the wireless connection tutorial on CentOS wiki, I have both 
> kernel-devel 2.6.6 and ath9k installed. Then I tried
> *
> $ modprobe ath9k
> 
> *but nothing happened.
> 
> Then I input
> 
> *$ service NetworkManager start
> $ chkconfig NetworkManager on
> 
> *to access the Network Manager and no wireless connection options appear.
> 
> I do not think it is a big problem for you guys, but I am really a 
> beginner. Please share me some solutions for that.
> 
> Thank you!
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You can try the drivers from ELRepo [0], did you install CentOS 6.4? The
latest kernel is 2.6.32.

I'm using the same drivers on my laptop and the package that I installed
was kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64

[0] http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php


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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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