[rockinthesix]

I've installed the latest version of XBMC Live, and I've read in the Ubuntu forums that the Dlink DWA-552 is supported by default.

Unfortunately I'm not getting the WiFi card to appear as one of my interfaces.

Are some drivers removed from the XBMC Live CD? If so, does anyone know how I might get this adapter to work?

[FishOil]

It would seem that card uses the ath9k module and indeed it does work out of the box.

More details please.

What steps have you taken to come to a conclusion that its not detected?

[rockinthesix]

Basically what I did was look for the interface

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

with an output

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

[FishOil]

You wont find it in there unless you put it in there.

Code:

iwconfig

will tell you the name of the interfcae

Then you will edit the interfaces file and add the required information.

Code:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

# Wireless Network

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.106
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1


wpa-ssid [b]"your ssid"[/b]
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk [b]"you can clear text your pasphrase or hex it"[/b]

remove the quotes on the bold stuff

The above example has a static IP. Make yours static or DHCP

[rockinthesix]

ok so I just tried

lspci

and part of the output is

01:09.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

So is there a trick to adding it as a usable interface?