I've recently setup
Arch-Linux on my laptop and I am now trying to get my wireless card to work. I've got this card to work with Ubuntu Linux using Ndiswrapper, so I know it should be possible. The card is 'Atheros AR5007EG' and my laptop model is a Toshiba p205-s6307.
I have the drivers that I used on Ubuntu and I installed Ndiswrapper from source. I then went through the following steps (I didn't document my original driver installation, so I will just write what the commands now output. The installation had no errors):
Code:
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ pwd
/home/tristan/wdriver
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ ls
ar5211.sys net5211.inf
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
Password:
driver net5211 is already installed
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
[tristan@asuka wdriver]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
To my knowledge, this should work. But, unfortunately 'wlan' is not showing.
I've been doing a little experimenting and still haven't been able to get wlan0 up. I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it using the ArchWiki:
Code:
ndiswrapper -i filename.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
depmod -a
(Add 'ndiswrapper' to '/etc/rc.conf' modules section)
modprobe ndiswrapper
Still nothing.
Results of
ndiswrapper -l:
Code:
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath5k)
But, I have found a few things that might be related to the problem.
When I attempt to run '
ndiswrapper -m' - I get the following error:
Code:
[tristan@asuka ~]$ ndiswrapper -m
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
;you should delete that at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 868, <MODPROBE> line 4.
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00000406sd00001468bc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
;you should delete that at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 868, <MODPROBE> line 5.
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00000407sd00001468bc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
;you should delete that at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 868, <MODPROBE> line 6.
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00000408sd00001468bc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
;you should delete that at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 868, <MODPROBE> line 7.
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00001025sd0000168Cbc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
;you should delete that at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 868, <MODPROBE> line 8.
module configuration contains directive install pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00001026sd0000168Cbc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
This pretty much repeats its self for quite a bit.
I've noticed that when I boot my system up, it complains about the following:
Code:
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found
FATAL: Module ath_hal not found
FATAL: Module wlan not found
I found a post about my particular card saying to blacklist ath_pci and ath_hal. So I added the following to my
/etc/modprobe.d/framebuffer_blacklist
Code:
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist hal_pci
Still no luck. So I then noticed that these were part of my modules in
/etc/rc.conf:
So I then removed them, making my MODULES line look like so:
Code:
MODULES=(r8169 ath5k wlan snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc sn$
ndiswrapper)
I'm afraid this hasn't resolved the issue yet. If anyone has any advice at all, please share!
