AR5700 wireless card activation Mint 13 -xfe 64 bit HP DV9700
 

I have Mint 13-xfe working well installed on a dual boot with WIN 8.1. The atheros Ar5700 wireless card works well with WIN 8.1 but not when I boot to Mint. I tried following the instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Device/AR5007;

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org...current.tar.gz
sudo mv madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/
sudo tar -zxvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4016-20090429/scripts/
sudo ./madwifi-unload
sudo ./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r)

I had trouble with following this. Im a newbie, What is $(uname -r)? should I have put something there? Also, is the forth line of code a new line or an overflow from the third line?

Thanks for any help

Please report the output of lsusb and lspci... You need to know the chipsets involved, not just the model number of the card. By the way, from what I quickly researched, that card was even a problem in Windows...

PS: Madwifi is not the way to go unless you can't help it...
See: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/...rivers/madwifi

the card has IC:4104A-ARBXB63H on it. I don't know how to output Isusb and Ispci.

If the AR5700 is not workable with Mint, can I use a USB wireless adapter?

When I did a inxi -F, I got the following: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath5k
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:22:69:00:5c:af

Hi...

Welcome to the forum :)

Yes, you can. Here is one adapter that I've had great success with. :)

However, it appears that a driver is already in place for your card. What is happening precisely when you try to log in? It would be also helpful if I could get more detailed information about your card. Please copy and paste the following command into a terminal and post the results...

Regards...

Through my bumbling around, apparently Mint loaded the correct drivers. However, it still did not work until I unplugged the ethernet cable and plugged in a medialink USB wireless dongle. then the local wireless networks showed up. I then unplugged the Medialink and the onboard wireless was working. Rebooted and still works. Its Magic!

Thanks for your help

Hi...

No, it's definitely not magic but I'm glad you got it working. :)

If you would, please mark this thread as "SOLVED" by clicking on "Thread Tools" directly above your initial post. Thanks!

Regards...