Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

[drpjkurian]

Hi

Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...

[Ian Ferguson]

Hi

Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...

I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?

[drpjkurian]

I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?

Yep

[danny.wilson]

Hi,
I'm experiencing similar problems on my Mac Mini (Ubuntu Lucid), which uses an Atheros AR5001 wireless adapter. Concretely, the (hardware) wireless connection appears stable (it does not disconnect), but in irregular intervals (every couple minutes) it takes ages to establish new (HTTP / TCP) connections. The browser hangs while "looking up example.com", dig yields no results for DNS lookups. At the same time I can sometimes ping my router without packet loss, sometimes with a packet loss, but always in 1-2ms.

Hi

Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...

I installed these packages to no avail. What exactly is the problem that is solved by these? Is there hope that the issue will be solved in the near future?

Many thanks for any hints / pointers!

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Linux mac-mini 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[sanskbn]

Madwifi driver works for me in lucid and maverick. I followed that french tutorial:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/atheros_ar5007eg

What I did:

svn checkout http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwi...s/madwifi-dfs/

cd madwifi-dfs
make 
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci

echo "blacklist ath5k" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "ath_pci" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Restart the computer