Atheros AR9485 just works in Trisquel 5.5

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MagicFab
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Hi all,

I recently got a netbook with this chipset. It now works with Trisquel
5.5. I updated h-node accordingly:
http://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/537/Atheros-Communications-Inc--AR9485-Wireless-Network-Adapter--rev-ff-

Cheers,

Fabian Rodriguez
http://trisquel.magicfab.ca

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Chris

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All of the Atheros PCIe N wireless chipsets should work with recent enough drivers. The cards with bluetooth AND wireless though only support the wireless portion. These cards are using two different chipsets. The bluetooth chipset is seen as a USB device on the mini PCIe cards and loads non-free firmware externally through the ath3k driver. I am pretty confident (if my memory serves me right) that the USB only works if the laptop has a 'USB function' support on the motherboard.