Atheros wifi stopped working in Hardy

[osarusan]

I have a Fujitsu Stylistic ST5112 Tablet PC that was working fine in Gutsy. I upgraded to Hardy the other day when the Release Candidate came out, and now the wireless doesn't work! :-(

After I upgraded, Hardy found my Atheros wifi card and hardware abstraction layer drivers. Before then, in Gutsy, I'm not sure which drivers I was using actually... but I guess not the Atheros ones. Anyway, now I can see the wireless networks with my cards, but I can no longer connect to them. When I try, the icon just spins around for 30 seconds or so and then gives up. I've tried disabling the new Atheros restricted drivers but all that does is make me unable to do anything with wireless.

Does anyone know what might be going wrong, or how I might fix it?

Thanks!

[kevdog]

Boot into the old kernel and download the madwifi sources.

Boot back into the new kernel (or simply download the madwifi sources and transfer them from another computer to the hardy computer).

Install the build-essential and linux-header files from the installation disk.

Compile and manually install the madwifi drivers. modprobe the madwifi kernel module, use it -- Enjoy!!!

Get back to me if you need specific instructions.