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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:46:17 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On 07/25/2012 12:30 PM, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote:
> I have a new laptop and running the latest version of Fedora 17 it
> cannot see the Wireless card.
>
> lspci -k
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0de9 (rev
> a1)
>          Subsystem: Device 1b0a:20dd
>          Kernel driver in use: nouveau
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0037 (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 6618
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)
>          Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 0123
>          Kernel driver in use: r8169
>
> lspci -v
>
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0037 (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 6618
>          Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
>          Memory at f7200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>          Expansion ROM at f7280000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>          Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> Is this chip known upstream or a new one?
>
> [18:28][tim@tigger2] ~ $uname -a
> Linux tigger2 3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 19 22:54:16 UTC 2012
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [18:29][tim@tigger2] ~ $

We need to see the PCI IDs for the Atheros device. Use "lspci -nn".

Larry