Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
I have a samsung N310 (GO) Notebook and installed Ubuntu on it. I used to have fedora but decided to move.
Everything is working perfectly except the wireless. I can connect to the network but it is very buggy & drops connections frequently.
Details from lspci
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e00c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
dhblewis
I have a samsung N310 (GO) Notebook and installed Ubuntu on it. I used to have fedora but decided to move.
Everything is working perfectly except the wireless. I can connect to the network but it is very buggy & drops connections frequently.
Details from lspci
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e00c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
It appears you are not alone (assuming you are using 10.04). The following link has a patched kernel that has worked for some, but not for others- might want to take a look at the thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466201
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
The patched kernel didn't work for me either, but installing Madwifi did. This thread tells you how. Though it was written for Karmic, it works for Lucid too.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309072
:)
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
This may help someone. I have Atheros AR5001 and I have managed to make my wifi work with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo modprobe acer-wmi
and it worked for a wile, but after I've updated the kernel, wifi stopped working. After some good hours of research I found that the problem is how the drivers are loaded. It has to be first acer-wmi and then ath5k.
So this are the commands that worked:
sudo modprobe -rv ath5k
sudo modprobe acer-wmi
sudo modprobe -v ath5k
and I've put this in the /etc/rc.local so I don't have to put this commands every time I restart my computer.
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
I may have spoken a bit too soon when I said that Madwifi worked. It's certainly an improvement on what I had before, but my wifi still has an annoying habit of losing the connection, and the only way I can get it back is to reboot.
I've tried Zuperman1's solution, but on entering the command
Code:
sudo modprobe acer-wmi
I get
Code:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.ko): No such device
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
I have similar problem. After putting my Toshiba to sleep... I cannot connect to wifi. It just tries to connect, but doesn't. After couple of sleep/waking up, it connects.
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
Hi
Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
drpjkurian
Hi
Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...
I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Ian Ferguson
I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?
Yep
Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
zuperman1
This may help someone. I have Atheros AR5001 and I have managed to make my wifi work with the following commands:It has to be first acer-wmi and then ath5k.
So this are the commands that worked:
sudo modprobe -rv ath5k
sudo modprobe acer-wmi
sudo modprobe -v ath5k
Thanks, after trying Madwifi without success, trying new kernel that will freeze my laptop, this is the most useful post I read.
For the moment, this works, and if the problem appears again, I will let a note on this forum.
I dont know how you find this, but if this is one of the reason why this card does not work good, the answer is so easy that I am surprised nobody saw it before.
Fingers crossed,
Thanks
Philippe