AR928X detected but no wireless networks are visible?

[Zerimas]

The Ubuntu hardware tester claims my wireless card (Atheros AR928X) exists, as does lspci

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

and lshw -c Network

 *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:15:af:cd:ed:33
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k latency=0 module=ath9k multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

However I cannot see my university's wireless networks (which are not hidden)

dan@Syndev:~$ iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     No scan results

pan0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

I've tried the "echo" on/off fix seen here to no avail. What is the last step in getting my wireless card to work? My network manager is WICD, by the way.

[Zerimas]

Bump.

[Foxbat250]

hi
I also have exactly the same problem!!!!!
if somebody can help us!!!

[Zerimas]

Bump.

[kevdog]

Can you post

ifconfig
iwlist scan

[Nopposan]

I'm having what appears to be the same problem with the same card.

Here's the output of my ifconfig:

user-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:72:7c:57:51  
          inet addr:192.168.1.13  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:fe7c:5751/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2297913 (2.2 MB)  TX bytes:119929 (119.9 KB)
          Interrupt:253 Base address:0xc000 

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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:376 (376.0 B)  TX bytes:376 (376.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:4d:3c:e3:3a  
          inet6 addr: fe80::223:4dff:fe3c:e33a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:2376 (2.3 KB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-23-4D-3C-E3-3A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)

Does this help?

Also, here's iwconfig:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=23 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

So, wlan0 looks promising, but I have no idea how to tap it's potential.

'Hope someone can help me out or point me in the right direction.

Cheers.