Howto Install Madwifi for Atheros in Lucid

[drpjkurian]

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

[reckik]

Have had some problems with keeping the connection on my machine. Am using it now for a few hours and appears to be working. Hope the connection wont drop again. Actually am using it on my Crunchbang machine.

this appears to be working on my acer aspire one with a atheros ar5001 chipset.

[drpjkurian]

Hi Reckik

Please install the backport modules of wireless and backport modules of lucid generic by synaptic package manager if you are getting intermittent connections.

please see the screenshot of post 43 of this thread if you have doubts
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...99#post9452499

[TomDoe]

You Sir are my hero!
I've struggled for a few days with the wifi on my Acer Aspire One A150, but your guide got it working fully and I can now enjoy my Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
A big thanks to you and the rest of this community for all your time and effort, its really appreciated!!

[drpjkurian]

oh its you...i have shot you a mail.
thanks buddy.

[reckik]

after following this my connection did get better. It did sometimes stop to connect thought. I installed the files u recommended, but it doesnt seem to get better.

I get an error, but my computer then freezs. As soon as it does again ill try to post the dmesg log.

It says something about unable to change channel

thx
harm

[brion@cbkidder.com]

Thanks DrKurian. Technically this fix did get my Acer Aspire's wireless working, but at an alarmingly slow speed. My other Ubuntu laptop gets about 9.5MBPS but this Acer is only getting 0.9MBPS running wicd and madwifi.

It's a shame the wireless won't work on this netbook because I just hate Windows. But a netbook without wireless is just silly so I guess it's a win for MS this time...

Thanks again for the tutorial tho.

[reckik]

well this doesn't work at all for me. Crunchbang keeps freezing up now, and i know its the wireless driver. Its doing exactly the same as Ubuntu did when i installed it. Sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after a few hours or even minutes. Really annoying cause i have to do a hard reset - nothing else works.

Can i still go back to my previous drivers? or is it better to reinstall crunchbang, just had it installed last week.

thx

[drpjkurian]

well this doesn't work at all for me. Crunchbang keeps freezing up now, and i know its the wireless driver. Its doing exactly the same as Ubuntu did when i installed it. Sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after a few hours or even minutes. Really annoying cause i have to do a hard reset - nothing else works.

Can i still go back to my previous drivers? or is it better to reinstall crunchbang, just had it installed last week.

thx

Hi
I am not sure whether the solutions for Ubuntu which is debian based solve crunchbag issues. Wireless drivers unlikely freezes the whole system. So I presume your 'freeze' has nothing to do with the wireless driver.

Well why not try the crunchbag forums?

[drpjkurian]

Thanks DrKurian. Technically this fix did get my Acer Aspire's wireless working, but at an alarmingly slow speed. My other Ubuntu laptop gets about 9.5MBPS but this Acer is only getting 0.9MBPS running wicd and madwifi.

It's a shame the wireless won't work on this netbook because I just hate Windows. But a netbook without wireless is just silly so I guess it's a win for MS this time...

Thanks again for the tutorial tho.

Hi
Why not give a last try by following the instructions mentioned in post#3 of this thread.