[ubuntu] How to install driver for Athero AR5BXB63 wifi?

[Olnex]

I have an Acer Aspire 5315, it has Athero AR5BXB63 wireless card (written on the label at the bottom of laptop), after installing Hardy Heron, the restricted hardware information has:

Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)
Support for Athero 802.11 wireless LAN cards

However, network manager applet on the top right corner does not show any wireless connection, could anyone tell me or point me to the right direction to make wireless work?

Thanks a lot!

Here is the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

[acreech]

I am having this exact same problem.

*-network description: Ethernet interface product: MCP67 Ethernet vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: a bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0 logical name: eth0 version: a2 serial: 00:1b:38:c8:1c:d2 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 ip=192.168.0.64 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes *-network UNCLAIMED description: Ethernet controller product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: cap_list configuration: latency=0

[mathieu.ward]

i guess that makes 3. would love to get this functional otherwise i will have no other otion but VISTA ( i dont want to but i feel ther is no other way)

acer aspire 5315, intel celeron 550 2gz, 1gb ddr2,
atheros AR5BXB63 and a fresh intall of hardy. i believe this is 32 bit system


tried to fallow a walk through on another thread but got lost

i love ubuntu and would like to have this feature at my disposal

all help greafully recieved

[chili555]

AR242x

Here are instructions; they require an active internet connection, so walk your computer over to the router and hook up the ethernet. Open a terminal and do these commands, each in order and in turn.

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
tar zxvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801/

The file name will change as the current build changes. Just watch what the file is that is extracted.

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot

Your wireless should now be alive. Post back if you need help.

[mathieu.ward]

what can i say, outstanding! thank you very much

followed your instructions late last night, lost patience and went to bed zzzzzz

woke up, booted and to my amazement fully functioning WiFi


thank you soooo much, you are a credit to the community

[chili555]

Thank you for your kind comments. Glad it's working! Please note that when an update brings a new kernel, you will need to build this module for the new one. You will need to do:

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801/
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci

[windozehater]

Chilli555 I can't thank you enough, I have an acer 5570z with that darn atheros card. and after trying every piece of advice i could find and scapping & reinstalling my system probably dozens of times you have made my laptop fully functional without any bugs. Until now the only way i could get wireless was through the external card slot or to swap out the internal with the broadcomm from my wifes compaq, this has been going on for a year. God Bless You, I thought i was gonna go nuts and have to though this machine into oncomming traffic.

[mikebdoss]

Chili555, many, many thanks. Everything was working on my new Vaio NR260E except the wireless, and I was having the same issues as most other folks. Your very straight-forward approach worked perfectly. Thanks again!

[sudoMakeMeASandwhich]

I followed your tutorial to the letter, however, I am still having some issues.

I have an HP Pavilion dv6911us, with the Atheros AR242x 802.11abg

I have two proprietary drivers (not enabled):
Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)
Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards

I followed you tutorial to the letter, and got no errors, but when I rebooted the wifi still would not work

in the past i tried ndiswrapper (that didn't work) but I disabled ndiswrapper and i took ath_pci off blacklist.

when i do iwconfig i get:

$ iwconfig
lo        no wierless extensions

eth0      no wierless extensions

I don't get ath0

I tried enableing the proprietary drivers, that lets me get the ath0 when I do iwconfig. However, I still can't get wifi to work and the drivers disable when I restart the comp.

[Lindy08]

Dear Chili555 I got to thru the fourth line of code:

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801/

then I got an error message that no such file name or directory existed. ???? Couldn't go farther. I am running off a bootable Live Flash drive not a full install. I am all of about a week into being a Linux Newbee.

Thanks for any more instruction. Up to that point things looked good.