Re: Fwd: How to set it up, when not working

Re: Fwd: How to set it up, when not working

[Kalle Valo]

Mike Reardon <mike.pc.reardon@gmail.com> writes:

> Recently purchased Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130
>
> Proceeded to set it up dual boot with live version of Ubuntu, then Fedora and
> Suse but not one recognized wifi.
>
> I have two with this unit, the first not connecting follows:
>
> * Dell Wireless 1537 802.11 a/g/n Adapter
> which I understand is Qualcom Atheros 3.7.2.45422  2013-10-17
> AR6004
>
> * Dell Wireless 5808 Gobi 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Card
>
> Further research established the former with 'ath6kl' is the FullMAC wireless
> driver for Atheros AR600x family of chips, for example AR6003, AR6004 and
> AR6005. And it is available since kernel 3.2
>
> It works in Windows 8.1, yet it is not working with Linux

I have understood it has a variant of ar6004 hw3.0 chip and just last
week patches supporting that went into wireless-testing tree. You also
need to add the new SDIO id to ath6kl, more info here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67921

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Kalle Valo

Re: Fwd: How to set it up, when not working

[Kalle Valo]

Mike Reardon <mike.pc.reardon@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for the response.  How do I add new SDIO id to ath6kl.  I didn't
> quite catch this in link.

It's in the bug description:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67921#c0

Just add a new entry to sdio.c.

> Will it work for my laptop specs?

I don't know, I don't have this version of board myself.

> Additionally will it work with my router. I didn't check but I'm not
> sure if it is rate for a "n" level routing.

ath6kl will work with older 11g APs as well.

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Kalle Valo