No wi fi on Acer 4315 - Ubuntu Gutsy

[thewebpromoter]

guys,
I need your help, I have been roaming around the internet and a lot of forums, but I have not found anything that can help me get my wi fi UP on my Ubuntu Gutsy, I am using an Acer 4315 Aspire laptop, and I cannot make it with the wireless LAN, I tried to issue a command such as ifconfig -a and it shows the following:


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:72:32:40:C1
inet addr:192.168.122.229 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:fe32:40c1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:19554349 (18.6 MB) TX bytes:1007868 (984.2 KB)
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I have also tried madwifi, but it does not help.

Thanks for your advise and more power to Linux users

[thewebpromoter]

guys,
I need your help, I have been roaming around the internet and a lot of forums, but I have not found anything that can help me get my wi fi UP on my Ubuntu Gutsy, I am using an Acer 4315 Aspire laptop, and I cannot make it with the wireless LAN, I tried to issue a command such as ifconfig -a and it shows the following:


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:72:32:40:C1
inet addr:192.168.122.229 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:fe32:40c1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:19554349 (18.6 MB) TX bytes:1007868 (984.2 KB)
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I have also tried madwifi, but it does not help.

Thanks for your advise and more power to Linux users


SOLVED:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude -y install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
cd ~
wget -O driver.tar.gz http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903.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

Thanks, bmartin:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=792158