I am writing to get some help with enabling atheros drivers for my beagleboard xm. I have used the image 3.14.2-armv7-x5 (http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#BeagleBoard_xM) .
If i run *lsusb* on the board i can see my TP-LINK TL-WN722N wireless adapter listed as : *Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n* However when i run *iwconfig* i donot see my wlan1 network interface. Also if i run *modinfo ath9k, *it says Module ath9k not found which means that the driver for this wireless adapter is not present. I have searched a lot on the internet but i cannot find a solution. The most relevant post is as follows: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/9KCIs7yqsa8 In this post *A*ndrewTaneGlen says that "it has since become clearer that building the drivers into the kernel as modules is far simpler and obviously less prone to tool-chain dependency problems faced when building it separately." I tried to compile the linux kernel from scratch by using the most recent stable version 3.14.5 ( https://www.kernel.org/) and i tried to enable Atheros wireless card support [image attached]. <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x6s03sy9oME/U48PryIZ5NI/AAAAAAAAAGc/xQBySS0L2rw/s1600/3.png> I have found this method very difficult and time consuming as i am a beginner in linux and very novice to compiling kernels. I tried to get the uiimage from my compliled kernel but my beagleboard-xm does not boot.So something is not working. If someone can please guide me on steps i can take to enable atheros drivers for my beagleboard-xm either by compiling the linux kernel from scratch or making changes on the 3.14.2-armv7-x5 image, i will really appreciate it. I look forward to a response. Thanks. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
