Sabayon 5.5 can´t create wifi interfaces [Solved]

[kxp]

Hello

Yesterday I have some problems with ubuntu and dicided to change to sabayon 5.5 Gnome, heard very good things about it, but after instalation I realise that wifi card wasn't instaled at start. So I start googling a lot and try a lot of things like this to threads:
http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4382
http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=23215
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc
And at least I tryed to compile the wireless drivers of my usb card that I found on this site http://linuxwireless.org./en/users/Download/stable/#compat-wireless_2.6.37_stable_releases and it came with an error when I try to compile the drivers.

I run "lspci" and "lsusb -v" and the two cards are detected but when i run iwconfig or ifconfig -a ther is no wifi interface.
I have an Asus 1201-NL with 3gb. The wifi cards that I want to configure are:
Tp-link WN722N USB (the chip I think is Atheros AR5416, driver ath9k_htc)
Realtek RTL 8191SE
kernel 2.6.37-sabayon, clean installation no updates.

If anyone could helping me installing both it would be amazing otherwise I need to install ubuntu again (they work):\

Ps:sorry about my errors and grammar

[micia]

Hi, welcome to the Sabayon Community.

Could you please post the output from:
(as root)

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iwconfig
ifconfig
lsmod


[kxp]

No please

The new config after reinstall and update:

kaxopas@kxp ~ $ sudo ifconfig -a
Senha:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:5b:39:61:38:ce
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:41

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:976 (976.0 B) TX bytes:976 (976.0 B)

kaxoaps@kxp ~ $ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

kaxopas@kxp ~ $ sudo lsmod
Senha:
Module Size Used by
ipv6 199341 32
snd_seq_dummy 804 0
snd_seq_oss 18915 0
snd_seq_midi_event 3267 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 30759 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 3429 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 25417 0
snd_mixer_oss 8969 1 snd_pcm_oss
nvidia 9222087 36
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 15522 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 192472 1
ath9k_htc 27817 0
mac80211 138318 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_common 1274 1 ath9k_htc
snd_hda_intel 15016 2
ath9k_hw 219232 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
eeepc_wmi 2352 0
snd_hda_codec 46972 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
sparse_keymap 1757 1 eeepc_wmi
atl1c 21253 0
ath 9687 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
snd_hwdep 3274 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 44061 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
uvcvideo 44320 0
shpchp 16939 0
videodev 45920 1 uvcvideo
snd_timer 11510 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
cfg80211 94837 3 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath
tpm_tis 4756 0
pci_hotplug 16126 1 shpchp
v4l1_compat 9376 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd 31285 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
i2c_nforce2 3868 0
tpm 7328 1 tpm_tis
pcspkr 1036 0
tpm_bios 2998 1 tpm
snd_page_alloc 4777 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_core 11199 3 nvidia,videodev,i2c_nforce2
joydev 6244 0
video 8914 0
output 1002 1 video
battery 6844 0
ac 1968 0
xts 1709 0
gf128mul 5162 1 xts
iscsi_tcp 6373 0
tg3 98161 0
e1000 75797 0
scsi_wait_scan 463 0
sl811_hcd 7207 0
ohci_hcd 16243 0
uhci_hcd 15660 0
ehci_hcd 28540 0
sx8 9703 0
imm 7144 0
parport 20883 1 imm
pata_pcmcia 6641 0
pcmcia 25237 1 pata_pcmcia

[kxp]

Any Sugestion?

[micia]

Sorry for being late, I had some work to do and I had no time to google for this too much

I have not your wifi card, so I hope that someone more qualified than me steps in, however if the chipset is Atheros AR5416, the correct module should be the ath5k (at least that is what I found out googling around), you can check the output from:
(as root)

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lspci

to verify the card's chipset.

[kxp]

Today i dicided to reinstall sabayon and managed to make all updates using a wired cable, but I really need the wifi connection, the both connection.

kaxopas@kxp ~ $ sudo lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:5126 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

kaxopas@kxp ~ $ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b3)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SATA Controller (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION VGA [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc/devices
The bolded ones are my 2 wifi cards.
Do you think that I should make thoes steps that i mencioned in first topic?

[kxp]

Last night I was able to compile and install the drivers for atheros chip, previous site i show, and realtek, from this site http://www.wireless-driver.com/realtek-rtl8191se-rtl8192se-wireless-drivers-utility/, but the problem continues.
What can i do?

[micia]

So, you have the wireless card integrated with your laptop and an external USB wireless, let's try to make them work one by one. I'd try to remove the USB one, and try to make the Realtek one work.
I am reading that it should work with the rtl8192se driver, available in entropy. Do not compile and install manually drivers or package, it is higly discouraged, it is a bad habit of many tutorials and guides from many distributions and it will most likely lead to a damaged system sooner or later.
If you installed manually drivers for that card, remove them before proceeding.
Try this:
(as root)

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equo install rtl8192se --ask


it should pull the driver and the firmware package.
now try to run:
(as root)

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modprobe -v r8192se_pci


and check again the output from:
(as root)

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ifconfig
iwconfig


[kxp]

Good news! I entered in kernel configuration and activate some opitons regarding the realtek chip and it work!:)
But for atheros chip nothing happen!any ideas?

[micia]

could you please, explain exactly what you did to make the RTL card work?
Did you use the drivers from entropy or did you do a full kernel recompile using the drivers from the site you mentioned above?