Atheros adapter not usable with nmcli

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Maxlan
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Atheros adapter not usable with nmcli

Post by Maxlan » 2023/12/19 16:52:41

```
nmcli d st
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
eno1 ethernet connected eno1
lo loopback connected (externally) lo
wlp7s0 wifi unmanaged --

lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eno1
...
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: wlp7s0
version: 01
serial: 94:db:c9:b4:ac:32
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=5.14.0-391.el9.x86_64 firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes
resources: irq:18 memory:f7900000-f797ffff memory:f7980000-f798ffff


dmesg | grep -i ath
...
[ 3.933692] ath: phy0: Disable PLL PowerSave
[ 3.941520] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 3.941521] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 3.941522] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 3.941523] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 3.942317] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9485 Rev:1 mem=0xffffb4b340980000, irq=18
[ 3.947863] ath9k 0000:07:00.0 wlp7s0: renamed from wlan0

nmcli radio all
WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
missing enabled missing enabled

rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

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TrevorH
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Re: Atheros adapter not usable with nmcli

Post by TrevorH » 2023/12/19 18:53:42

Try nmtui to edit it and activate it.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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