Atheros Drivers For Ubuntu 10.10

Atheros Drivers For Ubuntu 10.10 Windows 7

I have been struggling hard since i have installed Ubuntu 10.10 but it has been difficult for me to get my wifi working.So here is what i tried.First i checked whether i have the driver using the ifconfig command and it shows the wireless lan driver as wlan0.Next, i tried the command iwlist wlan0 scanning by becoming the root which gave me the output as no scan results.Next, i visited this link to see as to what problem my laptop may have. I do own have an ath5k chipset. And as i followed the instructions in the above link in one of the blacklist-athpci.conf file had this written in it.For some Atheros 5K RF MACs, the madwifi driver loads buts fails tocorrectly initialize the hardware, leaving it in a state fromwhich ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stopmadwifi from loading by default. Use Jockey to select one driveror the other. (Ubuntu: #315056, #323830I am not that good at Linux but i have given it a try. I had the same problem.

Almost took me a month to set it straight.Mine is an ATHEROS AR5007EG.First I tried ndisgtk (NDISWRAPPER). It worked but was very fuzzy. It used to show all available Wireless networks but connecting to it took a lot of time.Growing tired of waiting I gave mad wifi a try. The only downside was that it needs reinstallation for each kernel upgrade.Here are the steps:.First and the most important bit isundoing all that you have done sofar. Specially all blacklists youhave added.Uninstall the mad wifi driversalready installed.

Under the header 'Removingold modules'.Once all modules areremoved use to followDr. Kurian's method listedunder the heading 'Method Using madwifi andathpci'. Follow all the stepsmentioned.That should do it:)The secret is being patient.Hope this helps. One quick way to see if this is a problem with the configuration of your laptop would be to boot from an Ubuntu LiveCD and see if it can detect the ath5k wifi and connect to an access point.Even so, if you have wlan0, that means you have the hardware driver installed (unless you have other wifi devices?) already.

Lsmod grep ath5k also means you have the driver installed correctly.At that point, I'd check to see if it could be a problem with wpasupplicant (handles encrypted wifi). You can check that by trying to connect to an unencrypted/open wifi access point.I have an Atheros AR5212 in my laptop and I have been totally unable to connect to some specific wifi access point models. So, try to connect to two different models of unencrypted/open access points to make sure it's not specific to your available access point.Your link to the 'ath5k cannot recover' bugs could be the cause, but I don't think Ubuntu uses madwifi by default? I could be wrong.