Atheros wireless pcie card

Hello

I'd like to add a pcie wireless card which uses an Atheros chipset to my lab computer. According to linuxwireless.org website the ath9k kernel module is used in this case.

Sadly plug&play didn't work as the ath9k module doesn't get loaded automatically. A simple lspcie confirmed that, the card shows but the module doesn't. Is there a reason for this? Does it interfere with the real-time kernel in any way? If not, can I manually add the module to to load at system startup? And if yes, could somebody please explain me how, since I've never done that before...

Thanks


/edit
ah ok, adding ath9k to etc/modules did the trick
The thing is, the module still shows as "unused" at the damn card...

Hi

We cannot guess which OS and which kernel you are running, so you will have to tell us.

Also the exact model of the wi-fi card.
There are 15 different atheros chips that I have found.

Next read wiki.debian.org/ath9k

You will note that whilst the ath9k driver is correct for 802.11n PCI/PCI-E chips,
the driver for 802.11a/bg PCI/PCI-E devices is actually the ath5k

Ensure you are loading the correct module and then reboot your computer.
If your card is not working then post the output from

sudo lspci -vv > lspci.txt (the lspci.txt file)

from

dmesg | grep 'eth0' 'wlan'

and from

lsmod | grep 'ath'

Hopefully will be able to see what is happening

regards

PS
Also check that firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree are installed, plus IMPORTANTLY firmware-atheros

The last one would definitely not be routinely installed.

Sry for the late reply, I only get to work on my machine every other week...
Anyway I just updated to the latest build and all of the sudden everything is working fine.