Hi everyone,

I'm using a Lenovo R500 laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (64 bit). Everything seems to work fine, except for the WiFi card.

This card was in Windows 7 recognized as "11 b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini PCI express Adapter II." As far as I was able to determine, Lenovo branded two types of WiFi cards by this name. One was Realtek 8172 or 8192SE and the other was Atheros AR5001. If I got it right, mine is Atheros AR5001.

I have found a tutorial on how to install this card here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros

As suggested, I enabled the Backports repository by adding it to the /etc/apt/sources.list. I guess that it works, because when I checked for updates with "Update Manager", there were updates available from Backports. However, I wasn't able to find the ath5k module.

I would be very grateful if someone could explain to me how to find and add the ath5k module.

Thank you and best regards!