Madwifi installation for Atheros card in Karmic koala

[drpjkurian]

Hi guys in this thread you will the instructions to install Madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless cards. Please follow the instructions to the word.

Open the 'terminal' by navigating through Applications-->Accessories--> Terminal

Now type the following commands in terminal

1.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

From there make sure you uncomment anything that starts with "deb" in there. So changer it from "#deb" to "deb" Something along thoes lines. To exit and save hit "CTRL+X" the answer "YES" to do you want to save, then finally hit "ENTER"

2.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev

4.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

5.

sudo apt-get install subversion

6.

sudo -i

7.

sudo svn checkout http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk/ madwifi-ng

8.

cd madwifi-ng

9.

echo "" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

10.

echo "#Remove To Install MadWIFI Drivers" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

11.

echo "blacklist ath9k" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

12.

echo "blacklist ath5k" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

13.

make && make install

14.

echo ath_pci >> /etc/modules

Restart your machine.
It should work

Well i use Wicd to connect to the wireless modem
To install Wicd type the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wicd

Kernal updates of your system will kill your driver. Well no need to worry about that.Just recompile your driver.
For that you open a terminal and type the command

sudo -i

and just repeat the steps from No 8. Your madwifi will cone back to life again.

Best of Luck
Dr Kurian

[mahaganapati]

Amazing. It just worked (not that I didn't expect it to, but I've learned not to have too high hopes for these things) - and you just saved me hours of frustration. Thank you very, very much.

[jshayden]

Previously, I hadn't tried to use the SVN snapshot; I was hopeful that this would fix my problem. However, I get the same results: it continually asks for my password. Every now and then, it actually connects, but it is HORRIBLY slow. It never failed me in Jaunty (or before).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Josh

[jshayden]

I decided to give wicd a try in hopes that it would solve my problem. It seems to get past the WPA stuff just fine. It just sits forever at "Obtaining IP Address..."

Josh

[mahaganapati]

Try going to "preferences" and change from "madwifi" to "wext" - that has worked for me previously.

[Prosis]

After doing this, I can't even turn my wireless card on...

[drpjkurian]

I decided to give wicd a try in hopes that it would solve my problem. It seems to get past the WPA stuff just fine. It just sits forever at "Obtaining IP Address..."

Josh

Hi
I think yours is not a problem of a driver.How is it after Wicd?

With regards
Dr Kurian

[kasparillo]

Hi mates!

First of all, thanks for the info. I was trying to install dis madwifi driver by my own and was going nuts! It just worked perfectly!

The problem is that now i cant connect to any network and even the signal is much slower than before.

My question: How can i go back to my old driver? I don't really know which one i was using, but i'm running Koala on a Macbook pro 1,1, wich has an Atheros 5424.

May somebody help me please? i know i know... why i'm touching what i don't understand? I'm a geek i can not do anything else!

[hilltop_yodeler]

Thank you drpjkurian!!! I am able to now connect to wireless networks via command line. Neither wicd or network-manager will recognize my AR5212 Atheros wireless card, but using the command line, I can access wireless by specifying the following (as root):

## scan for wireless networks
$ iwlist ath0 scanning
$ iwconfig ath0 essid routerName key yourWepKey
## if you can't connect to your router, try obtaining an IP via dhcp:
$ dhclient aht0

Thanks again!

[Maxepr]

drpjkurian, I've had the same problem as everyone else with 9.10. My wifi is rediculesly slow. 9.04 was excellent. I was just about to go back to 9.04 when I saw the link to this thread. This is the kind of C**P that makes me nervious but I had nothing to lose anyway so I tried it. My internet is noticably faster. I have not tried it away fron home yet but I see no reason that it would be different anywhere else. Thanks for the help. My wifi is near normal now. It still amazes me that 9.10 was released with such a blatent flaw! Internet is the root of using a computer! Whoever released 9.10 too early deserves a kick in the ***! Once again, Thanks.