Madwifi installation for Atheros card in Karmic koala

[lentilman]

I'm using ubuntu 10.04 and ath5001. the wireless was showing networks but i couldn't connect, i thought this might be an issue with the driver so I followed drpjkurian's method. However, I'm now having the same problem as Chandru1. Please help.

[lentilman]

I tried to install wicd using the two commands but i get an error.

Setting up wicd-daemon (1.7.0+ds1-2) ...
* Starting Network connection manager wicd [fail]

Could this be the problem?

[suniljoseph]

Thanks Dr. Kurian. It worked!!!
Would you be any chance the same Kurian from dzlabz & CET?
Thanks anyway

[suniljoseph]

I guess I spoke too soon.
After a while the wireless connection got disconnected and then it says it can't find a wireless network. But my phone is connected to the same wifi network.

[amunibabu]

Awesome... you rock..

Was just playing with 'fn' buttons and turned off wifi.
never knew that playing with extra buttons on laptop would give me this much trouble..

You saved my day..
Thankyou..

[Subito Piano]

Blessings, blessings, drpjkurian...

I encountered a MAD ORNERY Atheros AR2413 802.11bg card (5005) on an Acer 3680 running Mint 9 (i.e., Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). Yours was the last hope before installing a PCMCIA card.

For anyone following this, it didn't work until I installed WICD.

Merci!!

[Subito Piano]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Like suniljoseph, i spoke too soon. Weird, yesterday i restarted several times and it worked fine but today -- no go. The same thing happened with the original Ath5 driver. I can't figure this out.

[Subito Piano]

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!

SOMEwhere i saw this: Go to Synaptic, search for "Atheros" and download everything you hadn't -- in my case, two packages: hostapd (which i think was the one i needed) and collectd-core. I installed both, rebooted, and i got on that ornery network!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will try more neworks and report back ONLY if i DO have problems.