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

[Xianyi]

On 10/09/2013 01:39 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote:
> 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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Thank you Earl.

It is CentOS 6.4 I have installed. And my kernel is 2.6.32 now. However, 
after finding some information about ath9k driver, it seems like elrepo 
currently does not support ath9k in CentOS 6.4.

Can you tell me how did you fix that?

Thank you any way.