modprobe ath9k at startup?

Question

I have finally managed to find a solution to make my wifi stable in ubuntu 10.10. I have had problems with my ASUS ul30vt and the Atheros AR9285 but by installing the latest compat-wireless from yesterday my internet is finally stable.

I seriously thought of installing win7 again. But one minor problem i have is that the wifi is not turned on automatically from startup so everytime i startup i have to go to terminal and sudo modprobe ath9k and then the wireless turns on. I have tried to make that command in startup applications but that does not work. Can i make a script or something that will turn it on from startup, or is there an other simple solution?

Solution 1

/etc/rc.local is a silly place to put it IMO.

Whack ath9k on the end of /etc/modules (the file that's supposed to handle which modules are also added by default)

Solution 2

You commented ath9k_htc was being loaded instead of ath9k. Maybe you should blacklist ath9k_htc in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. ath9k will probably be loaded instead.

Comments

[dhojgaard]

There we had the problem. Some other module (ath9k_htc) was set to start...