Atheros AR9285 wireless & F15

[Greg Woods]

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 12:26 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG laptop. It has
> the ar9285 chip in it.

After screwing around with this for a day, I finally figured out what is
going on. For some reason, it was also loading the acer_wmi module, a
driver for a different type of wireless chip, and this was screwing
things up. As soon as I did "modprobe -r acer_wmi", then everything
worked. I just needed to blacklist this module
in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, and now the Atheros chip is working
even after a reboot.

--Greg