Installing Wireless Internet in Ubuntu

apche93 · 12-26-2007, 10:20 PM

hi, i bought a sony vaio loaded with vista home premium.

in ubuntu:

i need to get my wireless card to work. i dont think that the driver is even installed. can anyone guide me through? here ill post the codes for my wireless driver info:

lspci:

Code:

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

lspci -n:

Code:

06:00.0 0200: 168c:001c (rev 01)

can anyone guide me through the steps i need to take?

THANK YOU SO MUCH, im sure this will help future noobs like me at ubuntu networking problems.

win32sux · 12-26-2007, 10:31 PM

Do you see anything about MadWifi/Atheros if you go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager?

prasanta · 12-26-2007, 11:07 PM

Quote:

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

I had a similar problem with the same Atheros build wireless card with Ubuntu. Atheros chipset and is only supported by non-free drivers. madwifi + ath_hal also did not work nor there was clear log message. Installed a Windows XP driver for the Atheros chip using ndiswrapper and it worked.

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Prasanta

apche93 · 12-26-2007, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by win32sux

Do you see anything about MadWifi/Atheros if you go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager?

it says that my restricted driver is:
ath_hal

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should i try a 32xp or a 32 vista?

apche93 · 12-27-2007, 10:35 AM

hi, can you guyz guide me through using the 32 xp driver in ndiswrapper?