Atheros Card

Anyone have a fix to allow my HP Pavilion M7585a with an Atheros 5413 card to connect with wireless. I cant find any drivers or projects that support this card. The Atheros webpage says there is a project which they share the information with the linux community but i dont know the whereabouts of any information or projects.

If anyone knows anything please let me know in this thread. Thanks.

Your card is supposed to be supported in the madwifi project. In Ubuntu, it's included in:

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sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

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The `uname -r` bit is just a way to tell apt-get, 'please match my running kernel.'

Having said this, there are bugs filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...24/+bug/222865 and here: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1912

I do notice, in the second bug:

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try to install the madwifi-trunk download it from snapshot and then compile it... make make install depmode -ae modprobe ath_pci

I've the same chipset and works very very well with this trunk... or try to install a svn version 2834...

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If you then go to Madwifi's site, http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi it shows instructions for downloading the trunk:

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svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi

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You will need to have a few pre-requisits:

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sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-headers-generic

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