setting wireless interface in WICD

[nshiell]

Hello,
I was having trouble a few weeks ago getting my wireless card up and running. I am back at it again, I noticed that there was nothing listed under "wireless interface" on the preferences tab in wicd. I imagine there should be something. But what!?

Nicholi.

[mimosa]

You probably need to take manual steps to get the card working, and I'll have a look at your earlier posts to refresh my memory about the difficulty you were having. But wicd is very effective at solving many problems, and it may be that just fiddling with it will get you up and running - and it can't do any harm.

EDIT

Have a look at Shador's posts in the other thread and try following his suggestions. Even if you already have and it didn't work, explain what you tried and what happened; then it may be clearer what to try next.

However, it may just be that doing

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#modprobe ath[whatever the name of the driver]

and then returning to wicd - refresh or rescan - will be enough. Let us know, and good luck!

[nshiell]

Will do!

[Shador]

Mimosa, that'll work only for atheros cards. That's what the ath stands for.
Post the output of iwconfig and lspci, so we can see what card you have and whether a driver appears to be loaded already.

[mimosa]

My card is the following:
Atheros 802.11b/g/n

[Shador]

My card is the following:
Atheros 802.11b/g/n

Can't see that anywhere. Anyway the output of iwconfig is needed regardless.

[mimosa]

@shador
This is a continuation of this thread:

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2961

on which you made some suggestions. The card is identified there.

@nshiell
It might have been a good idea to keep posting to that thread, even though it was from a while back. The problem hasn't changed, and the information there is relevant.

(Generally the opposite happens - a thread gradually wanders off topic (or not so gradually!) when it might be clearer to start a new one.)

[Shador]

Ok, so you just need to make sure that ath9k is loaded on boot. Probably it's not so add a line like this to the end of /etc/rc.local (or /etc/rc.d/rc.local not quite sure atm) or /etc/rc.d/rc.modules:

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modprobe ath9k

Then reboot and check if the wireless interface is set. If it's not or you don't want to reboot just set it to wlan0 or whatever interface is not listed with missing wireless extensions in the output of iwconfig.
Wired is usually eth0 (unless you have multiple nics or ....). But I guess it's already set.