Using the Atheros wireless driver
 

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10. It all works fine, and this version actually recognizes my wireless card, an Atheros built-in card on my Acer laptop:

(lspci)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

After the install, Ubuntu popped up a message regarding 'Restricted Drivers'. The Restricted Drivers Manager shows the Atheros driver (HAL) as being present and enabled.

However, no wireless card/interface is present when I view the Network settings in the GUI. Also, iwconfig shows 'No wireles extensions'

I'm fairly new to all this stuff (in Linux that is). What is my next step in using this driver to set up a wireless connection?

Thanks for your help.

I was looking at this today, since I want to use Wireless in a Laptop with this card too, and came around this site...

http://http://nosrednaekim.wordpress...r-aspire-5050/

It might help you... Essentially it seems that you need to install a Kernel Module and the NDISwrapper package.

Good luck

have you tried to bring the card on line with iwconfig Check dmesg to see what the interface it gave the card. http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/iwconfig8.html

If that fails i would try the madwifi drivers that is what i use never had a problem.
http://madwifi.org/

Yes i have a similar problem. I installed ubuntu 7.10 on my Sony Vaio, but it also has a built-in Atheros card.

When i enter (lspci) into terminal i get:

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

for my wireless card. the pci-id is:

168c:001c (rev 01)

does anyone know how i can get my wireless device to start working again? I am a noob and have no clue how to even start. Please any help would be greatly appreaciated.

There is a chance you really have a 5007EG that is misidentified as a 5006EG, which is not supported unless you are running the SVN version of Madwifi with a patch. Not saying this is definitely your issue, but I ran into this, and other people have too.

My lspci output:
It doesn't work with any Madwifi release, so I am using ndiswrapper with an 32-bit XP driver from http://www.atheros.cz

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okay, but if i use ndiswrapper instead should i use the xp/vista driver? also what bit driver should i use?

I have Windows Vista Home Premium.

I am using the 32-bit XP driver on my 32-bit Linux install.

i tried installing the drivers for AR5006EG & AR 5007EG through ndgtisk in system/admin; and it says the the hardware is present.

in terminal i type in ifconfig:

for iwconfig:

can u please suggest any other ideas? i really do not know how to use madwifi. i downloaded the latest thing but i dont know anything after that! please help. im a noob

Did you load the ndiswrapper module with "modprobe ndiswrapper"?

yes, i already have ndiswrapper installed. should i use ndiswrapper or madwifi?

That depends on if you really have a 5006EG or a 5007EG, the 5006EG works with madwfi, the 5007EG doesn't.

im thinking that i probably have a 5007 EG b/c in restricted drivers it says: ath_hal

Guide me?
 

can you guide me through installing the 32 xp driver?

Assuming ndiswrapper is already installed.

1) Download an extract the driver.
2) cd into dirctory.
3) ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf
3) ndiswrapper -l (to be sure the hardware is seen)
4) modprobe ndiswrapper

Is this done as root?

also what is the directory i put it in?