[SOLVED] Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x in 8.10

[tim183]

If you can see the wireless networks listed, then the module/driver should be working and it's a matter of configuring the connection.

I had the same problem, because before the upgrade, with the installed driver, the WPA Supplicant the manager was using was "madwifi", changing it to "wext" solved the problem.

I use wicd, so I don't know where to find this option on the network manager (try some googling if you don't find it). Or try to install wicd.

I installed wicd and ensured it was using the wext setting as described. It can also see the network just fine but when I try to connect it just stalls at "obtaining ip address"

[dipaish]

Hi the most easiest way to make atheros work is as follows:



Step 1: Open the terminal mode and type or copy the following command
deep@deep-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

Step 2: disable any other wireless driver if enabled by going to system----administration--hardware drivers ---(in my case i need to disable support for atheros 802.11 wireless lan cards)

Step 3: Restart your computer
deep@deep-laptop:~$ sudo reboot

The above commands enables the Atheros ath5k wireless driver which is not enabled by default.This is all about making wireless work on Ubuntu with atheros drivers.

[Me!]

Here's the solutions (although both give inconsistent connections):

1. You can try the linux-backports-modules-intrepid method outlined here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=3 which people have said is a better connection, but you'll need to reload the driver every time you log in.
   OR
2. Compile latest ath5k driver:
   
   • Download the package at http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...ss-2.6.tar.bz2
   • Use file-roller (or similar) to extract the source.
   • Move to the directory you extracted in terminal.
   • paste this into terminal:
     

     make
     sudo make install
     sudo make unload
     sudo make load

If you have problems and need to uninstall you can do:

sudo make unload
sudo make uninstall

in the source directory.

I'm Sorry, it did not working with me !

Asus r5rl , with Atheros AR242x

Wireless Led is off just starting Xorg
can not scan or connect to any wireless network

Old Ver. running on 2.6.26 or less



I am thinking to downgread to 8.04 until finding a solution for this problem, But I will try more today !

Thanks

[tim183]

I bought an intel pro/wireless card off ebay in order to try and solve this issue because it's driving me crazy, I have been trying to work around this issue for 4 months now following every forum/howto/blog post.

the intel card wouldnt work though. I was old about a 'white list' for hp notebooks.

does anyone have any other advice to get this annoying ar5007eg card to connect to the networks I can see?

[Me!]

it works now !

the problem is the conflict between the restrict drivers & ath5k (compat-wireless-2008-11-13)

you can download it by

wget -c http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

do this if you want to cancel restrict driver:

sudo update-rc.d -f linux-restricted-modules-common remove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd [pathTo]compat-wireless-2008-11-13/
sudo make unload
sudo make load

See installing steps : http://madberry.org/2008/11/how-to-g...-intrepid-ibex

Thanks all

[TpyKv]

Number 2 worked for me, thank you so much!!

(Sony Vaio with Atheros AR5007)

[off4vra]

Works fine with “linux-backports-modules-intrepid”
Asus F5RL! And the led is on!
Just need to do this:
1.open and edit the file /etc/rc.local
2.before the final exit 0, insert this line:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan

[ufos2010]

Although this method worked, I was really unhappy with the speed of my connection. It kept dropping out, etc, when it was working fine before in 8.04. I can confirm that I get better speeds with this method:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967520

is

Yep! This helped me out great!

[nrayever]

Here's the solutions (although both give inconsistent connections):

1. You can try the linux-backports-modules-intrepid method outlined here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=3 which people have said is a better connection, but you'll need to reload the driver every time you log in.
   OR
2. Compile latest ath5k driver:
   
   • Download the package at http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...ss-2.6.tar.bz2
   • Use file-roller (or similar) to extract the source.
   • Move to the directory you extracted in terminal.
   • paste this into terminal:
     

     make
     sudo make install
     sudo make unload
     sudo make load

If you have problems and need to uninstall you can do:

sudo make unload
sudo make uninstall

in the source directory.

Thanks a lot Malet! Method # 2 worked great for Intrepid Ibex! Hope that this issue gets solved soon in main branch.

Regards Nrayever

[jdruin]

When I typed in the last two instructions--"sudo make unload", then "sudo make load"--I got a message about needing to be root. I also got a message about only needing to enter "make unload" and then "make load". However, the procedure did work on my machine--a Compaq C751NR--for the most part. The only fly in the ointment is that I have to go into System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and first inactivate and then reactivate the Atheros 5K driver in order to get wifi up and running. Any ideas about how to fix this bug?

*R. Levitt*

Looks like on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Do...gandinstalling they mention that

sudo make load

will run unload for you, so you could skip the unload step.

Note that this will run make unload first, just in case you forgot. This unloads your old wireless subsystem drivers and loads the new shiny ones. For example if ipw3945 and its proprietary daemon are found it'll be stopped and the module unloaded and then iwl3945 will be loaded. If you are simply upgrading a mac80211 driver this will unload the old one and the old mac80211 drivers and load the new ones.