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.

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1 Answer

Upgrading the kernel to a newer version solves the problem.

In my case I downloaded a set of .deb packages from here:

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

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