WIFI connection problem DLINK dwa-160 with ar9170 driver

[Tony Pursell]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 12:03 -0500, Normand Marion wrote:
> The installation (10.04LTS) is working properly on the wired NIC. It
> also works on XP on the same PC (dual boot) with the same WNIC and
> NIC.
> 
> With Ubuntu and WNIC I cannot reach the router and the web with a ping
> or a firefox. But the connection looks connected: I got a valid IP,
> mask and DNS information via DHCP.
> 
> Pinging the router gives me
> 
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> 
> --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3023ms
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 2011/4/2 S.Allen <marathon.durandal at gmail.com>
>         On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:29:46PM -0500, Normand Marion
>         wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > Somebody have a hint for my connection problem with a DLINK
>         dwa-160 with
>         > ar9170 driver
>         >
>         > With a dualboot on the same PC on XP=SP3 it works fine but
>         on 10.04LTS it
>         > connects on wlan1 but I cannot reach the network
>         >
>         >
>         > If I do restart the deamon
>         >
>         > > service networking restart
>         >
>         > I get
>         >
>         > restart: Unknown instance:
>         
>         
>         < ...>
>         
>         > Thank you
>         >
>         > Norm
>         > --
>         
>         
>         So what's the problem, can you connect at all to the internet?
>         Does the
>         wired work? Can you connect briefly with the wireless and it
>         drops out?
>         Some hint as to exactly what's happening might help. ;)
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Try

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1282783.html

or any other link for the Google search "dlink dwa-160 linux driver"

It seems you may need to go down the ndiswrapper route.

Tony