[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#658401: base: Atheros AR9285 Wi-Fi adapter not working on HP 630 notebook with Wheezy

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I have a fresh install of Wheezy on my new laptop, and noticed that my Wi-Fi
adapter doesn't work. I turned on and off several times the wireless switch on
the laptop's keyboard - no effect. Issued rfkill list command shows that the
switch does not do anything: phy0 is soft and hard blocked too at all time (the
hp-wifi Wireless LAN on the other way is stucked soft - yes, hard - no state).
I have Windows installed on a different partition, haven't experienced any
problem with the adapter.

The device is showing at lspci list:
....
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network
Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
....

and the ath9k module are present:
lsmod:

....
mac80211              183047  1 ath9k
ath9k_common           12682  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              281405  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
....

I have a wireless usb adapter - SMCWUSB-G type - and with the installation of
the appropriate package (zd1211) from the repo it had worked perfectly -
network manager and all that.

Anyway, this is my first use of reportbug, so please excuse me, if i forget
something to add.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash