No wireless-n band for Atheros AR9485 b/g/n card
I have an ASUS G75VW with the Atheros AR9485 wireless b/g/n card. I have a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND Wireless N router configured to handle b/g/n. When booting windows, I have no problem connecting via n band but in Kubuntu 12.04 I'm only getting b/g. How do I enable n band support?
Here is the output from the WirelessTrouble
$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep rfkill; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/
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Fetched 5,150 B in 2s (1,730 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
rfkill is already the newest version.
hwinfo is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
x11proto-
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 94:db:c9:4d:f3:5f
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 10:bf:48:09:a5:82
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:49 memory:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 64:70:02:85:29:94
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1E:2A:6E:5A:20
Cell 03 - Address: 00:0F:B3:68:04:57
Cell 04 - Address: 00:1E:52:79:88:1F
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge PCI Express Root Port [8086:0151] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:1e16] (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:1e18] (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller [8086:1e57] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller [8086:1e22] (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1213] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0e0c] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1083] (rev c0)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:3362 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1bcf:2885 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
H/W path Device Class Description
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/0 bus G75VW
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/8 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/9 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/a memory 6MiB L3 cache
/0/b memory 16GiB System Memory
/0/b/0 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/b/1 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/b/2 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/b/3 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/c processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
/0/100 bridge Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller
/0/100/1 bridge Ivy Bridge PCI Express Root Port
/0/100/1/0 display NVIDIA Corporation
/0/100/1/0.1 multimedia GF110 High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/14 bus Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/16 communication Panther Point MEI Controller #1
/0/100/1a bus Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
/0/100/1b multimedia Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.1 bridge Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 wlan0 network AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
/0/100/1c.3 bridge Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0 eth0 network AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
/0/100/1c.4 bridge Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 5
/0/100/1d bus Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
/0/100/1f bridge Panther Point LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage Panther Point 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 750GB ST9750422AS
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 25GiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 300GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 373GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk BD-MLT UJ240AF
/0/100/1f.3 bus Panther Point SMBus Controller
Linux kub 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:16:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000fccf0] fccf0
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.969822] ACPI: EC: EC description table is found, configuring boot EC
[ 1.101947] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 1.101948] HEST: Table not found.
[ 1.132045] i2c-core: driver [aat2870] using legacy suspend method
[ 1.132047] i2c-core: driver [aat2870] using legacy resume method
[ 1.132169] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 1.132179] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 1.132196] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 1.136037] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 1.142467] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 1.179777] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 1.200088] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 1.298955] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 1.456044] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.476020] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.476415] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.476578] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.527934] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 1.540622] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.767872] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 1.900696] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.011673] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 2.144423] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.147599] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 2.215825] usb 1-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 2.379766] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 3.866589] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[ 23.175389] ADDRCONF(
[ 23.191774] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 23.245913] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 23.246194] Bluetooth: Atheros AR30xx firmware driver ver 1.0
[ 23.246234] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath3k
[ 23.252744] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device ASUS USB2.0 Webcam (1bcf:2885)
[ 23.255386] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 23.255399] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 23.270359] input: ASUS USB2.0 Webcam as /devices/
[ 23.270444] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 23.278578] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 23.278580] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 23.278582] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 23.278584] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 23.286797] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_
[ 23.287179] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
[ 23.329966] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/
[ 23.330013] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/
[ 24.216322] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/
[ 24.216395] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/
[ 24.216458] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/
[ 24.216520] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/
[ 57.645393] ADDRCONF(
[ 57.649462] ADDRCONF(
[ 57.740318] ADDRCONF(
[ 57.741733] ADDRCONF(
[ 60.575221] wlan0: authenticate with 64:70:02:85:29:94 (try 1)
[ 60.578856] wlan0: authenticated
[ 60.603711] wlan0: associate with 64:70:02:85:29:94 (try 1)
[ 60.607841] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 64:70:02:85:29:94 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=2)
[ 60.607844] wlan0: associated
[ 60.613095] ADDRCONF(
[ 71.943789] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Release Date: 04/06/2012
Product Name: G75VW
Serial Number: C4N0AS54277516E
Product Name: G75VW
Serial Number: BSN123456789012
Serial Number: CSN123456789012
Serial Number: Not Specified
Serial Number: 098368FD
Serial Number: 012183FD
Serial Number: 0430FA3F
Serial Number: 016183FE
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Sunhaven"
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=41/70 Signal level=-69 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:122 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
24: PCI 300.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: y9sn.LKYMpDvWhK4
Parent ID: qTvu.cocjDF_LCO6
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Atheros WLAN controller"
Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
Device: pci 0x0032
SubVendor: pci 0x1a3b
SubDevice: pci 0x2c97
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "ath9k"
Driver Modules: "ath9k", "ath9k"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xf7200000-
Memory Range: 0xf7280000-
IRQ: 17 (6400 events)
HW Address: 94:db:c9:4d:f3:5f
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ath9k is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath9k"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)
25: PCI 400.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: rBUF.nunklL0jx2C
Parent ID: Z7uZ.gSOj8XSAJw7
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Attansic Ethernet controller"
Vendor: pci 0x1969 "Attansic Technology Corp."
Device: pci 0x1083
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x1487
Revision: 0xc0
Driver: "atl1c"
Driver Modules: "atl1c"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xf7100000-
I/O Ports: 0xd000-0xdfff (rw)
IRQ: 49 (2 events)
HW Address: 10:bf:48:09:a5:82
Link detected: no
Module Alias: "pci:v00001969d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: atl1c is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe atl1c"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://
root 1063 0.0 0.0 233436 5380 ? Ssl 13:13 0:00 NetworkManager
root 1403 0.0 0.0 31700 2332 ? Ss 13:13 0:00 /sbin/wpa_
root 1920 0.0 0.0 7264 1544 ? S 13:13 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/lib/
nobody 1938 0.0 0.0 28820 1296 ? S 13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-
sleepy 4380 0.0 0.0 9384 904 pts/1 S+ 13:15 0:00 egrep --color=auto wpa|icd|etwork
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 32866 0
ppdev 17113 0
rfcomm 47604 16
bnep 18281 2
binfmt_misc 17540 1
joydev 17693 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 32474 4
snd_hda_codec_via 51398 1
asus_nb_wmi 12710 0
asus_wmi 24456 1 asus_nb_wmi
sparse_keymap 13890 1 asus_wmi
nvidia 12319264 52
snd_hda_intel 33773 5
snd_hda_codec 127706 3 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 13668 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 97188 3 snd_hda_
arc4 12529 2
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30748 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61896 2 snd_seq_
ath9k 132390 0
mac80211 506816 1 ath9k
uvcvideo 72627 0
videodev 98259 1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17128 1 videodev
ath9k_common 14053 1 ath9k
psmouse 97362 0
ath9k_hw 411151 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
serio_raw 13211 0
ath 24067 3 ath9k,ath9k_
snd_timer 29990 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14540 3 snd_seq_
ath3k 12961 0
btusb 18288 1
bluetooth 180104 24 rfcomm,
cfg80211 205544 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
snd 78855 20 snd_hda_
soundcore 15091 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_
mei 41616 0
wmi 19256 1 asus_wmi
mac_hid 13253 0
lp 17799 0
parport 46562 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
vesafb 13844 1
atl1c 41718 0
video 19596 0
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