[SOLVED] LM13 and Atheros AR9285 issue

[Windowsfree2013]

I have a Lenovo S10 with a Atheros AR5B95 AR9285 802.11B/G/N Half Mini PCI-E Card in it and LM13 is not recognizing it. It has a built in Broadcom card that is disabled in the BIOS. Any suggestions?

1.6GHz N270 Intel Atom Processor
1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz
10.2″ WSVGA AntiGlare TFT with integrated camera 1024×600
160GB 5400rpm hard drive
Intel GMA 950 Integrated Graphics
​Broadcom 11b/g Wi-Fi wireless and Bluetooth

Thank you for your time.

[The-Wizard]

try using additional drivers / driver manager [you may have to be internet connected by other means first]

[Windowsfree2013]

Would the Broadcom drivers be available that way? I would like to try and use the built in wireless as the Atheros seemed not as good when using the WinXP OS that was on the netbook when i got it. I am not sure why the Atheros was added in, since the Broadcom seemed to work fine.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[The-Wizard]

depending on which broad come, if its BC 43** series yes, but you will net to connect to the net by some other means to download them from the repository..
[menu... all applications....driver manager [sometimes listed as additional drivers] open and select search , it takes a little while, when/if it finds what you want select use this driver then enter]

[Windowsfree2013]

Ok, thanks for the guidance, I will attempt that later today and advise on the board. Windows only reported it as a Broadcom network adaptor. Thanks again.

depending on which broad come, if its BC 43** series yes, but you will net to connect to the net by some other means to download them from the repository..
[menu... all applications....driver manager [sometimes listed as additional drivers] open and select search , it takes a little while, when/if it finds what you want select use this driver then enter]

[The-Wizard]

in terminal type.. lspci that will give all the info on your pci devices, lsusb will give info on usb devices attach at the time

[Windowsfree2013]

Haven't been able to get to the issue yet, but will either today or tomorrow. Thank you.

[Windowsfree2013]

The hardware switch issue has become such a great problem with this that I decided to use Windows 7 on this Netbook. All the hardware works and no issue with performance. Even Aero runs decent. I will upgrade the RAM from 1 to 2 gigabytes later. I do believe a linux version with an XFCE desktop would run somewhat better but the hardware issue that the Linux OS has with this is just too much of a problem. Thank you all for your assistance.