Hey, I'm having massive dificulty getting this card to work with madwifi drivers. According too the madwifi site, it should have automatically detected and worked. Ive been searching and reading countless pages to no avail, so Im gonna ask and hope that you guys know whats up. Im a newbie to Linux, and eager to learn more, but stuff like this is such a demoralizer because I dont even know where I am going wrong

My system is a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, and the card is a Lynksys WPC54G version 5. I ran through and took screenshots (linked) of everything that the Ubuntu HowTo showed. Im trying to use the madwifi drivers (I assume, and I would like too if I am not).I am running version 6.10 of ubuntu

Attached is all the info.

Thanks alot for your time.

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According to your output, that card has a marvell libertas chipset, not an atheros chipset. Consequently, the card will not work with the madwifi driver which is only for atheros chipset cards. You have the madwifi driver properly loaded(ath_pci) but you are getting nothing detected with iwconfig which is what you would expect if your wireless card did not have an atheros chipset. To give you an example of what you should be seeing with lspci with an atheros based wireless card, here's my output:

This is one of the more frustrating things about dealing with wireless cards in linux. Cards with the identical name and version number can have different chipsets requiring different drivers, if one is even available.

I haven't researched it carefully, but marvell libertas chipset cards appear to work with the ndiswrapper driver. Ndiswrapper is an application that allows you to use a windows driver in linux. I would recommend that you remove the madwifi drivers and try to configure the card with ndiswrapper and the windows driver.