Atheros wireless HP CQ50

[empace]

Greetings,

I have been searching here and other forums to see how to solve this problem.

First off I am able to see wireless networks, however, when I attempt to connect to my wireless, which is WPA2, I get an error to input in a password, so then I tried to disable wallet and then it hangs on acquiring address. Any thoughts would help.

Thanks,
EMP

[SteveRiley]

Sometimes, a particular setting that adjusts the interface's cryptographic methods can fix this for Atheros cards. Please show the output of

lspci -k

[empace]

Here is the requested information:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company AR5BXB63 (Foxconn) 802.11bg Mini PCIe NIC
        Kernel driver in use: ath5k
        Kernel modules: ath5k

Thanks you for the help.

[SteveRiley]

First, please go to System Settings | Network Settings | Wireless, double-click your connection, and select System connection:



If that doesn't help, then run this at a command prompt:

sudo sh -c "echo 'options ath5k nohwcrypt=1' >/etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf"

and reboot.

[empace]

edward@localhost:~$ sudo sh -c"echo 'options ath5k nohwcrypt=1' >/ect/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf"
[sudo] password for edward:
sh: 0: Illegal option -h
edward@localhost:~$ sudo sh -c "echo 'options ath5k nohwcrypt=1' >/ect/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf"
sh: 1: cannot create /ect/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf: Directory nonexistent
edward@localhost:~$


Here is the error I am getting now. I apologize for the delay.

[SteveRiley]

Did you try the System connection suggestion, too?

Regarding the command...there's a typo in yours. It should be etc before modprobe, not ect.