I have an Acer Aspire One AO756-Series, equipped with a wifi controller Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462
Everything worked fine on 12.04, but when I upgraded to 12.10 I experimented some issues :
- wifi does work!
- still, the wifi icon/menu does not react normally :
- it is always grey, hence not indicating if connected or not,
- It does not react to me clicking on it (disconnect, change the network, desactive wifi, etc)
So it's not a critical issue because I can change the active wifi connection through control pannel, but it is very annoying.
Do you know of an solution around this issue?
2 Answers
One solution with Acer V3 571G (card AR9462) is to configure the ath9k module with options: nohwcrypt=1
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf The file should contain this:
options ath9k nohwcrypt=1 blink=1 btcoex_enable=1 enable_diversity=1 After saving this modified file, do
rmmod ath9k modprobe -b ath9k Sometimes, spurious listings get added to /etc/network/interfaces during an upgrade. Network Manager assumes you will therefore be managing those interfaces; in your case, wireless, and not NM. Please check:
gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces If there is anything more in there than this, remove it:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback Proofread carefully, save and close gedit. Restart NM:
sudo service network-manager restart Now your wireless should be correctly managed by NM.
