Did a fresh install + updates of Kubuntu 8.10 on a customer’s laptop and had no wireless even though it’s an Atheros chipset.
UPDATE:
I recently tried this method on a similar Acer laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 with no results. After searching, I used another guide that makes compiling madwifi from source simple. If my method doesn’t work for you, remove the backports modules:
sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-intrepid-genericthen reboot, and try out the below guide. Thank you Hyperandy.
Link: http://blog.hyperandy.com/2008/11/01/atheros-ar242x-ubuntu-810-ibex/
Hardware:
- Laptop: Acer Aspire 4520
- Wireless Card: Atheros AR242x Communications Inc. 802.11abg
lspci | grep "Atheros" 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Resolution:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
After above install completes, reboot, then open up the Hardware Drivers manager (jockey-gtk or jockey-kde) and disable “Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards” and make sure that “Support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards” is enabled then reboot. You may need to reboot to see both drivers in the Hardware Drivers manager.
This is at least a temporary fix, you’ll end up with the ath5k drivers- hopefully a stable universal method for Atheros card support will become available soon.
Source:
8.10 Release Notes | Ubuntu
I’m working on an HP G60-235DX and I’ve got it functioning per your instructions. To get it to work is a bit of a kludge as I have to stop and start the driver (which continually says it is in use; even when I deactivate it), manually start a search for a network and then push the wireless button which doesn’t change color to acknowledge off or on. It then finds all the networks except the one I told it to connect; at least it shows no signal. It then connects to the network as instructed. If I could eliminate the stopping and restarting of the driver that would be a good start. Any suggests?
Hello there
THANKS !!!!
Having installed wubi 8.10 and trying all the hints i could find, I still wasn’t able to use my wlan Atheros 5413 card…
Last effort was connecting a 30 foot cable, update and installing backports.
The last thing to make my loong cable obsolete was your good advice.
Pretty steep learning curve, though I have been working with Linux some years ago
You just made my smile a lot bigger 8->
This worked for HP Pavilion DV6915nr w/ Atheros card.
Thank you for the tips. Really good post. With a little tweaking I managed to make my wireless work.
Hi Sam & others
thanks to Shannon VanWagner (http://humans-enabled.com) I found this post and it worked perfectly for my HP Pavilion dv5-1050ee AMD Turion 64 bit X2 Ultra.
Am a new user to Ubuntu and am slowly gathering pearls from the Linux gurus – Shannon, Sam and others. Kudos .., keep it going
Gopal
Kuwait
i love u man it works for me T_T I’m so happy!!!
OMG you’re my hero! For two days now I’ve been trying to connect through wireless and FINALLY got it with this:
1.sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
That’s all I had to do.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thanks so much, got this to work on my Acer Aspire 5314L50. After running this command and rebooting, I just clicked on the network icon by the clock and all the wireless networks were there!
hmm, thx alot my atheros was working after this….
This has been the simplest fix I have found. Have been trying to get it working for 4 days! THANKS!
thanks Sam, it works
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