Atheros AR5007EG (AR242x ) in hardy

[nicedude]

I have writen a complete step by step guide for installing the aircrack patched madwifi drivers for proper operation of the AR5007 chipset in 32bit Hardy 8.04 . Also in the posts at the thread below I have posted 2 scripts to both launch a kismet server and to return to managed mode for regular internet use that I wrote for myself and decided to share. You might check it out if your using a Atheros card with patched madwifi drivers or want to be.

Link to my guide
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795984

My kismet scripts are at post #13

If you do use my guide or scripts please post a comment on that thread to report your experience.

While there are other guides around mine is the most complete I know of. And I have had a bunch of people tell me it was the only thing that worked for them.

Anyone that needs furthur help feel free to PM me and I will try to help you out

[lusis89]

Using the latest version of MadWifi from http://madwifi.org worked for me.

1) Disable restricted drivers (HAL & Atheros from System->Restricted manager)

2)

wget http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=madwifi&filename=madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz&use_mirror=surfnet

3) extract the downloaded tarball and run

make

and

sudo make install

4) then unload old modules

sudo madwifi-unload

5) Insert the new module

sudo modprobe -i ath_pci

And should work.

[Meggeler]

Thnk you for the explicit instruction. My eeepc wifi quit after the latest update and I was lost . Having a broken right arm make a lot of hit and miss debug difficult and painful.

[jazee]

I have tried both solutions (1st ndiswrapper, 2nd new madwifi drivers build) neather seem to have solved my problem.

I have a new HP dv6812 with Hardy 64bit edition installed. Any other idea that I may look into trying to get this to work.

[retrow]

I had not disabled the Hardware Drivers earlier. They need to be disabled in order for the new drivers to kick in.

Thanks a lot for the OP.

[rsandu]

Hello,

I am trying to set the wireless on a Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535 (64 bit machine), using Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64.

I've read and followed the howto's given above (including disabling proprietary driver), but I was unable to get it working.


The full hardware data about this machine is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456041

I've used the ndiswrapper method + Windows drivers, but no luck. The Windows is reported as loaded, but „unattached”. The Windows drivers are those that already work on Windows...

I really don't want to install 32bit Hardy just for the sake of wireless...


Could you please help ?


Regards,
Răzvan

[rsandu]

Hello again,

Regarding what I've said above about the Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535, my only idea is that:

If one looks on Fujitsu's site, looking for Windows drivers, he/she will note that Windows 64bit Edition is not supported.

http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/c...downloads.html

So probably the Windows drivers available on this site are *32 bit* drivers. Many people said here I have to use 64bit drivers...

Can you please point me to some x86_64 Windows drivers, if any - to use with ndiswrapper ?

Regards,
Răzvan

[stranger22]

I couldn't thank you enough mate. Sometimes when I boot, it doesn't connect automatically. Then I got to left click on it and choose Connect to Other Wireless Network. That I can do.
Thanks a lot, again.

[apche93]

Here is another method of installing ur driver:

First download the driver from here:


http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special...+ar5007.tar.gz

Then complete these steps:
1. Remove any ath_pci driver from the RESTRICTED DRIVERS MANAGER
2. Make sure that you have

build-essential

package installed, if not, fire up a terminal and type in

sudo apt-get install build-essential

3. Navigate your way in Terminal to the directory where you downloaded the archive for the driver
4. Type these to decompress the archive

tar xfz madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

and

cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007

5. Type

make

to compile
6. Type

sudo make install

to install the driver
7. Type

sudo modprobe ath_pci

to insert the driver as a kernel module
8. Restart by typing

sudo reboot

9. If all goes well, after you restarted, you will find wireless networks in your Network Manager


OR,

u can just visit this topic where i kinda stole the information from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=662877


Hope that helps!

[ftabor]

hi,

this post is for people who may have the same problem as i had.

i've a Toshiba a201 with Atheros AR5007EG (named AR5006EG in gusty) now name AR242x in hardy.

anyway, to make it work:

- disable both restricted drivers in System > Adminstration > Hardware drivers

- install ndiswrapper in the add/remove window

- download the .inf from the XP driver at : http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

- open a terminal and type this command : sudo ndisgtk

- select the net5211.inf file and "enter"

- it should now work

i hope this help.

Thanks, this worked perfectly for a HP Pavillion dv6000.