On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:58 PM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2014 7:32 PM, "Alexander Kapshuk" <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:32 PM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Hm, does wireless device require firmware? Have you installed firmware >> >> properly? >> > >> > >> > I dont think so. I have installed gentoo on it before and back then I >> > just >> > used the genkernel and it was working. >> >> What's the output of 'lspci -k'? >> > > It shows the device which is a atheros ar9285 > But doesnt show any kernel driver in use for it. > So that is because the driver is not compiled?
I dare say the kernel driver may not have been compiled into the kernel, or compiled as a kernel module. What's the output of 'cd /usr/src/linux && grep -i ath .config'?