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05-26-2008, 01:24 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Costa Rica
Distribution: Ubuntu, gOS, Debian & Slack 12
Posts: 426
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Hardy upgrade not finding wireless card, ath0
Hello there guys.
I have just upgrade to hardy heron and i am not able to find my wireless card on my toshiba laptop. The file /etc/network/interfaces is just the same as the one i had in gutsy, but the wireless card is not found anywhere. I tried lspci and the card is there. But when typing ifconfig, i can only see the loop back and ethernet 0 interfaces. I know the wpasupplicant software is installed because i tried installing it again and apt said that it was already the latest version. I am attempting to install the madwifi drivers, but i can't seem to find the right source to place in sources.list so that apt can find the drivers. The error message specifies i should install the contrib and non-free archives. Which are these???
How do i get my interface back in hardy?
Here are some command outputs if you need them.
sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor
Last edited by trebek; 05-26-2008 at 03:57 PM.
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05-26-2008, 06:33 PM
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo / Debian / Rasbian / Proxmox
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have you tried installing the madwifi drivers? http://www.madwifi.org/
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05-26-2008, 06:39 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Costa Rica
Distribution: Ubuntu, gOS, Debian & Slack 12
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Yeah, i just installed the packege with make and make install, and it was inmediately found. Kinda weird went the rest of the steps, but bottom line is, it now works.
Thanks.
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05-26-2008, 06:44 PM
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
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lol, upgrades can be funny like that
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05-26-2008, 08:16 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Costa Rica
Distribution: Ubuntu, gOS, Debian & Slack 12
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You probably have an idea, but check this out!!! When choosing either ubuntu 8.04 or ubuntu 8.04 recovery mode, i can only boot it normally to KDE after selecting recovery mode and then choosing from the menu to boot normally. I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.24-17, to see if can boot normally.
I'll have to open another thread for this issue, i haven't been able to find the cause of this weird behaviour.
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05-26-2008, 08:46 PM
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
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hmm, it doesnt sound like a kernel issue, i'd need to know what the output is as you boot, you'd need to remove the 'quiet' boot command from the boot commands
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