hp Pavilion g6 with Atheros (AR9485) [168c:0032] doesn't connect in 11.04

[nelsongo.com]

UPDATE: The solution to the problem is in #63
I recently bought a new computer (hp Pavilion g6) and haven't been able to connect it to my wifi. I've been a user for 2 years and have already installed in a few laptops (with the typical wireless problems - thank you forum gurus), but still I consider myself a noob.

At first I tried to install 10.04, but that didn't work. Now I installed 11.04, but still cannot fond a solution to my problem.

I ran this first

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

The results were:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1693]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
--
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1785]
	Kernel modules: ath9k

Then

 rfkill list all

resulting in:

1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
4: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

But when I tried

iwconfig

wlan0 was a no-show

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

The occured with

ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 78:e3:b5:5a:cd:d7  
          inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::7ae3:b5ff:fe5a:cdd7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:63833 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:43550 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:91705458 (91.7 MB)  TX bytes:3619756 (3.6 MB)
          Interrupt:40 Base address:0xe000 

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:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:23336 (23.3 KB)  TX bytes:23336 (23.3 KB)

I searched for linux drivers and couldn't find them... but I also tried to use Windows Wireless drivers, I found the driver and applied the .inf but the wireless stayed dead. I rebooted a couple of times and tried to turn on and off the wireless button.

Thank you in advance.