Acer Aspire can't see my wireless card.

[lorgonjortle]

Ok, I have an Acer Aspire 5100... I am brand new to Linux, and don't know much, so if you give me some commands, please tell me exactly what I need to type.
These are me ethernet devices:
Atheros AR5007EG Wireless network adapter, and Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
'iwconfig' reported:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.



'lsmod' reported:

Module Size Used by

ipv6 317192 10

nls_iso8859_1 6528 0

nls_cp437 8192 0

vfat 16128 0

fat 60208 1 vfat

usb_storage 81728 0

libusual 22824 1 usb_storage

rfcomm 47656 2

l2cap 28672 11 rfcomm

bluetooth 63876 4 rfcomm,l2cap

ppdev 11272 0

powernow_k8 16608 1

cpufreq_conservative 9608 0

cpufreq_powersave 3072 0

cpufreq_ondemand 10896 1

cpufreq_stats 8160 0

freq_table 6464 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats

cpufreq_userspace 6048 0

battery 12424 0

ac 7304 0

sbs 21520 0

video 21140 0

container 6400 0

dock 12264 0

button 10400 0

parport_pc 41896 0

lp 15048 0

parport 44172 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp

joydev 13440 0

snd_hda_intel 337192 1

snd_pcm_oss 50048 0

snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss

pcmcia 46232 0

snd_pcm 94344 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss

snd_seq_dummy 5380 0

snd_seq_oss 36864 0

snd_seq_midi 11008 0

snd_rawmidi 29824 1 snd_seq_midi

snd_seq_midi_event 9984 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi

snd_seq 62496 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event

snd_timer 27272 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq

snd_seq_device 10260 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq

yenta_socket 30220 1

pcspkr 4608 0

rsrc_nonstatic 14208 1 yenta_socket

sdhci 21004 0

pcmcia_core 46628 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

serio_raw 9092 0

k8temp 7680 0

mmc_core 33416 1 sdhci

ath_pci 105392 0

psmouse 45596 0

snd 69288 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_de vice

soundcore 10272 1 snd

snd_page_alloc 12560 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

i2c_piix4 11020 0

wlan 225736 1 ath_pci

i2c_core 30208 1 i2c_piix4

ath_hal 219888 1 ath_pci

shpchp 38300 0

pci_hotplug 36612 1 shpchp

evdev 13056 6

ext3 146576 1

jbd 69360 1 ext3

mbcache 11272 1 ext3

sg 41384 0

sd_mod 32512 3

ide_cd 35488 0

cdrom 41768 1 ide_cd

8139too 31232 0

sata_sil 14600 2

atiixp 7824 0 [permanent]

ide_core 141200 3 usb_storage,ide_cd,atiixp

8139cp 28032 0

mii 7424 2 8139too,8139cp

ata_generic 9988 0

libata 138928 2 sata_sil,ata_generic

scsi_mod 172856 4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata

ehci_hcd 40076 0

ohci_hcd 25092 0

usbcore 161584 5 usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd

thermal 16528 0

processor 36232 2 powernow_k8,thermal

fan 6920 0

fuse 52528 1

apparmor 47008 0

commoncap 9472 1 apparmor



I haven't installed any drivers... I don't know where to go. I feel completely helpless right now, because I took off Windowz and I am borrowing a computer right now just to type this... What do I need to do to connect to my wireless internet? In Windowz, it just recognized it and I connected. When I go into System>>Network it only shows modem and plug-in. There is no wireless option...If someone could help me with this, I would greatly appriciate it, since my laptop is really the only computer I can use... and I need internet.
Thanks for anything.

[Coffeeman51]

I have an Acer Aspire 5520 and this thread gives detailed instructions on how to get the atheros card working...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795984

Hope it helps...

[lorgonjortle]

Ughh.. I went through all of the steps and all it did was waste time and make me not able to open the Network manager anymore. I had to re-install Ubuntu, because I have no clue how to fix things. Will some one just tell me what to do, plain and simple? Not just give me these instructions that aren't meant for my wireless card(Atheros AR5007EG Wireless network adapter, and Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) or even my version of Ubuntu (Gusty Gibbon). Thanks for the try, but that didn't work.:confused:

[Naif.1]

Hope to find the sloution, I am having the same problem.


Thanks.

[manis]

Never give up. Because I took one week to setup, configure/install Antheros AR5007EG in toshiba notebook L200-N402. Now I can surfing using wireless connection on ubuntu 7.10.tk

[lorgonjortle]

To Manis:
How did you do it? We have the same exact card and distro... do you remember how?

[manis]

Dear Longonjortle,

I glad to help you.

2. A few thing to consider a) my notebook is Toshiba L200-N402. In windows XP this card ( Antheros) said it was AR5007EG, but Ubuntu read it as AR5006EG.

3. At first I installed and UPGRADE Ubuntu 7.10. This upgrade is important because if you ugrade afTER your install madwifi driver,the wireless connection is dead( cannt make a connection)

4. Download madwifi driver at http://madwifi.org/tickets/1679
- look for already patch file, ( madwifi-nr-r3366-ar5007)
5. complier this ..but before this you must install build-essential.
- a command line type #sudo apt-get install build-essential
6 After finish make sure you add module using this command #sudo modprobe ath_pci
- you can see this module load using this command; #sudo cat /etc/modules
- if not open the /etc/modules and add ath_pci ( small cap pls)
# sudo gedit /etc/modules

6 someone (in this forum) suggest to uncheck Antheros Hal Abstraction Layer ( HAL) - but in my case I do not uncheck this HAL.

7. restart the machine and pull out RJ45 Cable ( wired connection), After this the rm-applet will search/attemting to connect to the wireless Acess Point.
8 Try ping the router or acess point and also to your DNS server ( given by your Internet service provider (ISP)

9 And, hope your problem is oke now. Let me know.
see you again
thanks

[lorgonjortle]

Thanks everyone for their help. I found a solution. If you would like to see it, I'll post it here:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude -y install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
cd ~
wget -O driver.tar.gz http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz
tar xf driver.tar.gz
cd madwifi-*
make
sudo make install
echo ath_pci | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo modprobe ath_pci


After trying several other things without success, this did a treat the first time. Goodluck to anyone out there with this same card. I hope I could help.

[manis]

To L,

did you get wireless conection now?
:)

[lorgonjortle]

Yep, but I ran into an even bigger problem (In my opinion). My wireless is all fine and dandy, and I was trying to set up desktop effects (Compiz check came out peachy), and I must have done something wrong, but I rebooted, since I had just installed 211 updates, and when I logged back on, my rez is like 600x400 or something, and I can't change it back... then my screen started fuzzing up and everything went triple vision on me. I rebooted, and there is no more triple, but the rez is really low and it is stuck there and I still don't have desktop effects.... Bummer.

[manis]

My Dear,
Congrat because your can using wifi now. Your new problem can be solve by

1. choose recover mode in ubuntu ( in boot menu)

2. on terminal : sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and your system will be to normal ( hopefully)

3. pls inform me if you can solve this problem

[lorgonjortle]

Manis, thank you so much for that one! Worked like a charm.