ath9k Driver Speed Trick

[makubex]

_{This tutorial was originally made and posted by me on the linux mint community site. I wanted to move a copy over here for ease of use and to share the knowledge! Here is the original}

This is a tutorial for any one who was having issues with ath9k drivers under most newer versions of the Linux OS. A few things I noticed a while back while installing was LMDE over mint 12 a while back was that my wireless drivers were getting slow(Dial up might have been faster). I figured it was an OS thing but after a while(30 seconds) I got tired of it and started searching around, I found this and figured I would share it!

-- Enjoy!



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Commands used:

• inxi -Nxx
• ls
• sudo
• nano

Step one: Identify your driver with the Command:

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inxi -Nxx

Note: this is not the only command that works to do this however its the one that worked for me.

Step two: Look into the directory of the config file:

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ls /etc/modprobe.d/

Note: Alternately you can change directory(cd) into the modprobe.d directory and just "ls" from in the dir itself.

If its there, you will see "ath9.conf" if not we need to make the file. It can be a new file just so it has what we are going to put into it.

Step three: Open the file like this:

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/ath9.conf

If the file was not in the directory it will make it in doing this command. Also note that you will need to use sudo to write the file to the directory.

Step four: Open file surgery (Lets call it a heart replacement) simply add the following line (It will work if its a premade file or one you just created):

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options ath9k nohwcrypt=1

Save and reboot with all luck when you start your network you should be enjoying your normal network speeds now.