[SOLVED] Success with Madwifi & Atheros AR5007EG

[mfdc1969]

Last night I successfully got the Atheros AR5007EG working in my Acer Aspire 5610Z with Madwifi. I was previously using ndiswrapper but after following the instructions on the Madwifi site I changed the drivers

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192

It wasn't working immediately but then I found additional information on this page:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaiju...less.html#5007

My main issue was that after installing Madwifi I had not fully disabled/removed ndiswrapper - a few tips on that are mentioned in the second link above.

So far it is working well although connection speed varies from 24/48/54 Mb/s - even though my computer has remained in the exact same room/position only 15' from my wireless router.

I hope this helps others as the Atheros AR5007EG is something I have struggled with too.
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[mfdc1969]

Follow up ...

I did a clean install of Intrepid and installed the module linux-backports-modules-intrepid as per:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros

Everything worked on the wireless side but I had to further apply intrepid-proposed updates in Synaptic to resolve an issue that knocked out my Broadcom ethernet connection - described at LaunchPad:

LaunchPad Bug Report #287450


Atheros Wireless is much easier in Intrepid!

My thanks to all those who have worked so hard to make it so!