Atheros AR5007EG (AR242x ) in hardy

**radagast1155** · April 12th, 2009

Originally Posted by formol

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.

after two days of fighting with the computer it finally works! Thank you

**subtorn** · April 15th, 2009

Some progress to report with my Toshiba LT and upgrading to JJ (9.04)...

After upgrading from Hardy to JJ, my AR5007EG is working and allowing me to post this message...unbelievable...and totally awesome!!!

Gotta give it 3:

for it working without ndiswrapper.

Edit/Update: Installed aircrack-ng and madwifitools through the SPM and got the AR5007EG into Monitor Mode.

**screwballl** · May 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by subtorn

Some progress to report with my Toshiba LT and upgrading to JJ (9.04)...

After upgrading from Hardy to JJ, my AR5007EG is working and allowing me to post this message...unbelievable...and totally awesome!!!

Gotta give it 3:

for it working without ndiswrapper.

Edit/Update: Installed aircrack-ng and madwifitools through the SPM and got the AR5007EG into Monitor Mode.

That is what I suggest for people using previous versions of Ubuntu... worked for me as well... I did have it working for a few hours in 8.10 but then it stopped working for some odd reason...

**Chris Hallquist** · May 26th, 2009

This fix worked for me when I did it last fall, but I had computer troubles and had to reinstall my OS. Now when I try to do it, the website linked in the OP seems to be gone. Does anyone have the file / know where I can get it? If you have the file and are willing to send it to me, say so and I will PM you my e-mail address.

**djobbito** · May 29th, 2009

There is a very good solution. Working perfectly for me and trust me, I got full speed with the ath5k modules and no more suspend on the network.

Go to http://www.ramoonus.nl/2009/03/24/li...-debian-linux/ for instructions.

But I would advice to install the 2.6.30r*{last one} (I have the 2.6.30r4) from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ which work very good on my laptop with that chipset.

Let me know.

Ps: Info about kernel 2.6.30 http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-...--/news/113090

**SaintHairBall** · July 14th, 2009

This referenced link is 404d. Any replacement?

http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

**J_dillinger** · August 22nd, 2009

Upgrading ubuntu 8.10 with madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3942-20090205 to ubuntu 9.04

I was using the madwifi-hal driver with my 8.04 - 8.10 ubuntu install, but when I upgraded to 9.04 the driver failed to function. More importantly the Ath5k fails to allow running in promiscuous mode and packet injection. The wifi works, but I am unable to use kismet and aircrack-ng with the new driver. In answer to the previous question I edited kismet.conf with the following devices activated:

source=madwifi_ag,wifi0,Atheros

The real problem maybe that I just need the source for the ath5k driver.

**J_dillinger** · August 23rd, 2009

so I tried the following...

sudo modprobe ath5k

then...

modeprobe -l

to check if it worked. I then edited /etc/kismet/kismet.conf with the following source...

source=ath5k,wlan0,atheros

and kismet worked perfectly, I will have to work on aircrack-ng next because my wife does not see the importance of the achievment and wants me to weed the yard.