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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?
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.
Yes i have a similar problem. I installed ubuntu 7.10 on my Sony Vaio, but it also has a built-in Atheros card.
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.
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.
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?
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
for iwconfig:
Quote:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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
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
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
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