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Old August 16th, 2007   #1
ntlam
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atheros ar5007eg on satellite u305-5077

Hi all

I got problem with my wireless on my Toshiba Satellite U305-5077. Even I tried many times with solutions in several threads I got no success.
As I looked at Windows, the information about my card is: Atheros Ar5007EG.
Some reports said that madwifi doesn't support AR5007EG (it supports most of atheros chips but not this one).
I tried using Ndiswrapper and used "net5211.inf" from XP driver (32 bit) as it is suggested in some threads. I failed ...
Here is what I did:

Step 1: Disable ath_pci

sudo rmmod ath_pci
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-common

add the following line at the end of the file

blacklist ath_pci

Save and close

Restart computer

step 2. remove old ndiswrapper by using synaptics

Step 3: Build essentials
Use the synaptic package manager
Install the package called "build-essential" in the group called "Development"
But I already got it installed

Step 4: Install Ndiswrapper.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=93482
Download ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz to folder /home/username

Code:

cd /home/username/
sudo tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz
cd /home/username/ndiswrapper-1.47/
sudo make
sudo make install

Step 5: Load drivers with ndiswrapper.
sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

installing net5211 ...

forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
........ a lot of lines like above...

then:
sudo ndiswrapper -l
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath_pci)

Step 6: Load ndiswrapper and check if it worked
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Check it:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Then I did:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

After reboot I got no wireless.

I asked for help in some threads but haven't got answer yet. Hope I get some idea here. Thanks
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