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After literally weeks (!) of trying to get a wireless card working in Master mode on my machine, I did what I should have done on day 1 and type <B>lspci -v</B>. This is the relevant block (<B>bold</B> is my emphasis):<BR>
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0000:01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: <B>Unknown device 001a (rev 01)</B><BR>
Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc.: <B>Unknown device 1052</B><BR>
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 201<BR>
Memory at f8420000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]<BR>
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2<BR>
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So, this card is an unknown device which the networking tools kind-of-partially-but-not-quite-sort-of know what to do with. I've had it working in Managed mode just fine, but I can't get it working in Master mode at all. What's the usual next step when you find a piece of oddball hardware like this?<BR>
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<B>Michael T. Richter</B><BR>
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