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Originally Posted by Telkwa
He's running Ubuntu 8.04 now. I had no luck getting his stupid Atheros wireless card to work.
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If you put the Atheros 5007 card back, you could try the following steps to get the latest patched madwifi driver to work with his Atheros WiFi chipset. This should work for an Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit system (not 64 bit).
1) First go to System> Administration-> Hardware Drivers and disable by un-ticking the following option
Code:
Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
Then reboot your system
2) Go to System->Administration->Software Sources. Make sure you have "Universe" & "Multiverse" checked.
3) Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and perform the following commands for steps 3 through 7;
Code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
4) Get this version of madwifi patched driver
Code:
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz
5) Untar the downloaded package
Code:
tar xvfz madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz
6) Get inside the unpacked directory
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cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007
7) Now you can first build, install, and then load, your madwifi driver modules with the following commands
Code:
sudo make && sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci && sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta
8) Now restart your computer and you should be able to see any available networks in your Network Manager.
Good Luck..