How do I get Wireless to work on a Asus Zenbook UX31(E)?

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Upgrading the kernel to a newer version solves the problem.

In my case I downloaded a set of .deb packages from here: http://people.canonical.com/~ogasawara/eugeni/rc6/amd64/

This kernel is patched for the Zenbook and works very well for me. Together with the instructions on this Wiki page, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook, for a script to run before the suspend function, this makes for a fully functional system for me.

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An innovation manager by day and an open technology believer by night. Currently enjoying 11.10 with the Gnome-Shell on an Asus Zenbook UX31.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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hansdezwart almost 2 years

I have a new Asus Zenbook UX31E. One instant problem that I have run into is that there doesn't seem to be a way to get wifi working out of the box using an Ubuntu 11.10 Live USB stick which has kernel 3.0.00-12 (it does work when I try with Fedora 16 and with OpenSuse 12.1).

Here is some relevant output:

nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              802.11 WiFi
  Driver:            ath9k
  State:             unavailable
  Default:           no
  HW Address:        01:08:CA:87:2F:D5

  Capabilities:

  Wireless Properties
    WEP Encryption:  yes
    WPA Encryption:  yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points

lshw -C network

  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 01:08:ca:87:2f:d5
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 memory:dea00000-dea7ffff memory:dea80000-dea8ffff

rfkill list

0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

iwconfig

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

lsmod | grep ath9

ath9k                 112711  0 
mac80211              272785  1 ath9k
ath9k_common           13599  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              293893  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath                    19387  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211              172392  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath

The problem is that ethernet isn't working either (the laptop uses a special adapter), so instruction on how to fix this will likely involve putting .deb packages on USB sticks.

Daniel W. over 12 years

since your driver is the ath9k wireless driver this page might have some answers for you: linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k you could also post the output of 'lsmod' to see if any ath9k modules are loaded
hansdezwart over 12 years

Thank you, I don't see any direct advice on that page. I have added the output of 'lsmod | grep ath9'