Madwifi installation for Atheros card in Karmic koala

[gooberguy]

followed these instructions in hopes of getting my very slow wifi quicker (atheros 5001) but to no luck. the top right does not even show the network notification, and my wifi is not present, only works wired now.

[lbirunner]

Your instructions were very good but I think my install (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic) might be slightly different than yours. I'm seeing some issues with the contents of /etc/modprobe.d. See WARNING from 'modprobe' below.

And the first line in /etc/apt/sources.list is:
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)]/ karmic main restricted
So I didn't uncomment that line. If I do, I get an error.

Otherwise, I followed the instructions to the letter, but am not able to load the driver.
- reboot didn't work
- "sudo modprobe ath_pci" gives:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

uname -r gives:
2.6.31-15-generic-pae

Contents of /lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic-pae:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 400321 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_hal.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 266727 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_pci.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 10288 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_rate_amrr.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 20102 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_rate_minstrel.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9627 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_rate_onoe.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 16929 2009-12-04 11:30 ath_rate_sample.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 8153 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_acl.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 11037 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_ccmp.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 269962 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 14349 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_scan_ap.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 19108 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_scan_sta.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 15508 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_tkip.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9442 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_wep.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3065 2009-12-04 11:30 wlan_xauth.ko


Here's the output from 'lspci'. You can see my Atheros AR5001X 3rd from the bottom (I use it for Wireshark captures, it's a AIR-CB21AG-A-K9 Aironet card):
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

If I use insmod on the 3 drivers:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic-pae/net/ath_hal.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic-pae/net/wlan.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic-pae/net/ath_pci.ko
They appear to load ok but I'm missing something. I'm unable to get the interface (ath0) to show up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have to leave for German Monday morning to troubleshoot some wireless issues with a customer and I would rather not revert back to 8.04.

Thanks,
Mike.

[Lucretia9]

I upgraded and yet again, my wireless broke. every time I upgrade this happens, only this time, no madwifi. Why use a kernel with broken drivers and not give a madwifi deb as a backup?

Anyway, here's the relevant output from lspci -vvnn:

04:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear Device [1385:5a00]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 96 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at ff9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
        Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k

The card is a Netgear WG311T.

Thanks for the fix.

Luke.

[tulpie]

I just have do the instruction of Post #1
And the network-manager had displayed about a wirless adapter.

sudo modprobe ath_pci

and the new driver appear in network-manger with adaper.

ifconfig

display even wifi0

thanks (i don't know if ath_pci is the right driver, because after reboot i have compiled another madwifi, i think the free driver )

thanks (perhaps i shout write, that in mashine is AR5008X Chip)

[n3had]

i've followed the insturctions and after reboot still no icon in network manager

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2001:3a03 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G132 (no firmware)

P.S. I haven't installed wicd

[carsonrose]

Hi guys in this thread you will the instructions to install Madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless cards. Please follow the instructions to the word.

Open the 'terminal' by navigating through Applications-->Accessories--> Terminal

Now type the following commands in terminal

1.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

From there make sure you uncomment anything that starts with "deb" in there. So changer it from "#deb" to "deb" Something along thoes lines. To exit and save hit "CTRL+X" the answer "YES" to do you want to save, then finally hit "ENTER"

2.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev

4.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

5.

sudo apt-get install subversion

6.

sudo -i

7.

sudo svn checkout http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk/ madwifi-ng

8.

cd madwifi-ng

9.

echo "" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

10.

echo "#Remove To Install MadWIFI Drivers" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

11.

echo "blacklist ath9k" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

12.

echo "blacklist ath5k" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

13.

make && make install

14.

echo ath_pci >> /etc/modules

Restart your machine.
It should work

Well i use Wicd to connect to the wireless modem
To install Wicd type the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wicd

Kernal updates of your system will kill your driver. Well no need to worry about that.Just recompile your driver.
For that you open a terminal and type the command

sudo -i

and just repeat the steps from No 8. Your madwifi will cone back to life again.

Best of Luck
Dr Kurian

I am a total noob to Ubuntu..... My server runs CENTOS 5.3 with OSDial running w/Asterisk... I was thrown into the linux world, AGAINST MY WILL!!

That being said, I decided if I was going to be stuck dealing with it, I might as well learn it, right? So I installed Ubuntu on one machine, Fedora on another, CentOS on one and openSUSE on yet another one....

Well, I have been pleasently surprised by Ubuntu. This was back in June of this year and I am now about ready to dump windows altogether!

The only issue I had was this wireless issue, which is now fixed thanks to this post!

Cheers!!

Doug Bradshaw
Carson Rose & Associates, Inc.
(214) 306-6528

[drpjkurian]

Hi Guys
Thank you very much for your compliments.

Dr Kurian

[tetebueno]

I have an Acer 5570z with an Atheros AR5001 wireless card and latest Karmic and steps 1-14 of the 1st post worked great. I tried this after plenty of brainiacs suggested tons of other stuff. Thanks a lot.

[drpjkurian]

I have an Acer 5570z with an Atheros AR5001 wireless card and latest Karmic and steps 1-14 of the 1st post worked great. I tried this after plenty of brainiacs suggested tons of other stuff. Thanks a lot.

Hi

Thank you very much for your compliments

With regards
Dr Kurian

[coxne]

I followed the instructions as you posted, and it still doesn't work. Wicd can't find any wireless networks. I have an hp dv7-1135nr with atheros ar5001.

Here are my lspci/ifconfig/iwconfig outputs. Any help is appreciated.

cox@hplinux:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
08:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
08:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
08:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
08:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
cox@hplinux:~$ ifconfig
ath1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:4d:2c:c6:c0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:4dff:fe2c:c6c0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:ec:af:87:71
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:ecff:feaf:8771/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2922 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4100711 (4.1 MB) TX bytes:508121 (508.1 KB)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-23-4D-2C-C6-C0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:180835 (180.8 KB)
Interrupt:18

cox@hplinux:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"DanielleIsAwesome" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0