Madwifi installation for Atheros card in Karmic koala

[bac522]

Um..I did this but nothing happened. Did you mean "sudo rm" instead of "sudo mv?"

You can try "sudo rm" if that doesn't work I suggest reloading the compact-wireless drivers back on. Of course you'll need internet connectivity to get those drivers, then follow the following steps:

Open up a shell and create a working directory:

mkdir wireless

cd wireless

Next download (what I found to work) a version of the compact-wireless drivers

wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6/2009/10/compat-wireless-2009-10-15.tar.bz2

Uncompress and extract the files

bunzip2 ./compat-wireless-2009-10-15.tar.bz2

tar xvf ./compat-wireless-2009-10-15.tar

Change into the directory and build the drivers.

cd ./compat-wireless-2009-10-15/

./scripts/driver-select ath

make

Now install the drivers (don't worry about the initial warning message

make install

Now remove the blacklist entry that was created intially

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Thats it. Rather then doing a "make unload" I would suggest just rebooting. Barring everything worked okay your wireless should be working with the ath9k driver.

[bronxbomberz41]

Now remove the blacklist entry that was created intially
Code:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Thats it. Rather then doing a "make unload" I would suggest just rebooting. Barring everything worked okay your wireless should be working with the ath9k driver.

When running this this is what i have.

#Remove To Install MadWIFI Drivers
blacklist ath9k
blacklist ath5k

blacklist ath9k
blacklist ath5k

Should I delete those completely or is there something else I should do to remove those blacklists? So far this worked pretty well actually and I'm optimistic that this will work.

[bac522]

When running this this is what i have.

#Remove To Install MadWIFI Drivers
blacklist ath9k
blacklist ath5k

blacklist ath9k
blacklist ath5k

Should I delete those completely or is there something else I should do to remove those blacklists? So far this worked pretty well actually and I'm optimistic that this will work.

Yup...whack them or just delete the entire file. Bascially a blacklist tells Linux to not load those drivers even though it thinks it should.

One thing I notice is that the rev of the driver (oct-15) seems to work only at 802.11b speeds, but for now that's works for me. I suspect the developers working on the driver will resolve the issue in the next few weeks. You can pretty much follow these steps for other drivers from other dates...mileage will vary though.

For example, I found the drivers date Nov 19th didn't work at all.

[bronxbomberz41]

mrh...It didn't work. I'm not sure what to do.

[bac522]

mrh...It didn't work. I'm not sure what to do.

What does it show when you do a "lsmod"

Also show a print out of "lspci"

Try removing and reinstall the drivers:

modprobe -r ath9k
modprobe ath9k

And what does it show when you do a "iwconfig"

[xtbt]

bronxbomberz41:

Did you already tried intstalling the linux-backports-modules-karmic from the repos? I fixed my ath9k issues with them.

Just go to synaptics and search for the package. Give it a try, you don't have nothing to loose.

Good luck,
X-TBT a.k.a. The Mentor.

[bronxbomberz41]

lsmod output

^_^[brian@brian-laptop:~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc             8356  1 
ppdev                   6688  0 
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi     3356  1 
snd_hda_codec_idt      59844  1 
snd_hda_intel          26984  2 
snd_hda_codec          75708  3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            37920  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16028  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep               7200  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                75488  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           2656  0 
snd_seq_oss            28576  0 
snd_seq_midi            6432  0 
snd_rawmidi            22208  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6940  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                50224  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              22276  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
ath5k                 122404  0 
mac80211              210504  1 ath5k
ath                     8444  1 ath5k
snd_seq_device          6920  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
cfg80211              130536  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
iptable_filter          3100  0 
uvcvideo               59112  0 
joydev                 10272  0 
snd                    59204  16 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
hp_accel               11228  0 
videodev               36736  1 uvcvideo
soundcore               7264  1 snd
ip_tables              11692  1 iptable_filter
sdhci_pci               7132  0 
psmouse                56180  0 
lis3lv02d               7452  1 hp_accel
jmb38x_ms               9696  0 
v4l1_compat            14496  2 uvcvideo,videodev
i2c_piix4              10124  0 
snd_page_alloc          9252  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp                 32336  0 
sdhci                  17632  1 sdhci_pci
lirc_ene0100            8192  0 
lp                      8964  0 
x_tables               16544  1 ip_tables
serio_raw               5280  0 
input_polldev           3716  1 lis3lv02d
lirc_dev               10804  1 lirc_ene0100
memstick               10104  1 jmb38x_ms
ndiswrapper           185564  0 
led_class               4096  3 ath5k,hp_accel,sdhci
parport                35340  2 ppdev,lp
dm_raid45              84228  0 
xor                    15620  1 dm_raid45
video                  19380  0 
output                  2780  1 video
r8169                  32352  0 
mii                     5212  1 r8169

lspci output

O_O[brian@brian-laptop:~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
08:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
08:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
08:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
08:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
09:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

I tried installing those karmic backports and still no luck at first....but then I did iwconfig and saw that a wlan0 output was there...I had done this before and saw nothing for wlan0. I was able to then turn on my wireless! Thanks for all your help guys.

[bac522]

I tried installing those karmic backports and still no luck at first....but then I did iwconfig and saw that a wlan0 output was there...I had done this before and saw nothing for wlan0. I was able to then turn on my wireless! Thanks for all your help guys.

So are you able to connected now? Man...don't know why your machine is being so temperamental.

[xtbt]

I tried installing those karmic backports and still no luck at first....but then I did iwconfig and saw that a wlan0 output was there...I had done this before and saw nothing for wlan0. I was able to then turn on my wireless! Thanks for all your help guys.

Nice to hear it my friend. It would be great if you can post the actions taken after installing the linux-backports-modules-karmic package. It could be helpful for other users as well.

Hopefully,
X-TBT a.k.a. The Mentor.

[tjmcwiz]

I tried the early recommendation with madwifi and wicd but the approach won't work for me. It now sees the network (couldn't before) but the approach is unsuccessful in obtaining an IP address. I will try the back porting approach and see if that works....

It will be interesting if they can fix the root problem of all this. It use to work underneath 9.04 but it's broken but good now underneath 9.10.....

Just an update --- I was able to get it working by compiling in madwifi. I needed to use the version that was listed at their web site based upon my kernel level

madwifi version: madwifi-0.9.4-r4100-20090929
linux version: 2.6.31-16-generic
wireless card: description: Ethernet controller
product: AR5212 802.11abg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7f00000-f7f0ffff