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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Christopher Chan <christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk><br>
To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>
Sent: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 3:22 am<br>
Subject: Re: 802.11-N Howto<br>
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> Ok, here are the details:<br>
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Ouch, nevermind the part about not top posting. Your mailer messes <br>
things up so bad you better just top post or change your mua.<br>
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> The nic in this computer is a DWA-556 Xtreme N PCI Express Desktop Adapter<br>
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> the output of lspci -v | less is:<br>
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> 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless <br>
Network Adapter (rev 01)<br>
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> Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a70<br>
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16<br>
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> Memory at cfdf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]<br>
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> Capabilities: <access denied><br>
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> Kernel driver in use: ath9k<br>
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> Kernel modules: ath9k<br>
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> If memory serves, this is the same kernel module (by name) that I used during <br>
my last Linux install (SuSE). I did not have this problem then but then I did <br>
not use it that often.<br>
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> Are there not gui tools for configuring the connection parameters 802.11 <br>
b/g/n, WPA/WPA2, TKIP/AES without having to make changes at the driver level?<br>
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> I would like to try to force 802.11-n/WPA2/AES. Why someone would make a tool <br>
that says WPA/WPA2 as if the two are synonymous is beyond me. Those are two <br>
standards have very important distinctions.<br>
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I would not call setting that stuff tweaking...I thought you had other <br>
issues. I shall let others step in now.<br>
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