[HOWTO] Atheros AR5007 Wireless

[gkrules]

i know a lot of you are having troubles with getting the Atheros AR5007 wireless card working with Hardy Heron. I sent a help request on the madwifi site and i got a modified version for the AR5007 for Hardy.
Heres the tutorial:
First disable Atheros Hardware Access Layer [HAL]:
Go to System>Administration>Hardware Drivers
and uncheck Atheros Hardware Access Layer
then reboot

after reboot type these into a terminal window:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz

tar xfz madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz

cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007

sudo make

sudo make install

sudo modprobe ath_pci

then reboot and it should work!

[presston]

tried this way on 5006 - dont work. only with driver for windows (with NdisWrapper)

[Pooka2132]

Total newb but I did everything in post #1 and it still didn't work. Any more suggestions? Many thanx

[presston]

look here

https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/...-internet.html

[nicant]

Work on laptop Aser Aspire 7720Z !

THANKS !!!

[gkrules]

Yea it wont work if u have an AR5006
only AR5007

[balagosa]

dude...this crashed my Hardy on reboot. i can not log in anymore.

the situatuion....


Loading Kernel Modules
Loading Manual Drivers.... then after 30mins of wait, still nothing.

i tried booting into recovery mode and this is what i got...
*Reading files needed to boot
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt = no)

using Xubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic. i am using NDiswrapper though...not madwifi. so i think when i "modprobe", this caused my problem?

[balagosa]

uhm...bump

[nicedude]

First off the AR5007 reports in lspci as being a AR5006 so if your trying to diagnose your problems you should verify your chipset through your PC makers info not lspci.

My acer 5520-5716 has dual boot with both Gutsy & Hardy, both now how have fully functional wifi with madwifi patched drivers. Hardy was more complicated than gutsy and gave me several problems, my final solution was to just remove the following and then install drivers myself

Linux restricted modules ( Drivers for Nvidia & Wifi ) had to go bye-bye as did the pathetic Jockey restricted driver manager software. Without these to confuse things all that was left was to obtain required drivers from Madwifi and from Nvidia then install them myself which wasn't hard but you will need the packages "make" & "build-essentials" to allow you to compile stuff.

Link to Madwifi driver for AR5007 with Hardy ( 32 Bit )
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special...+ar5007.tar.gz

Link to Nvidia Graphics Driver ( 32 Bit )
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...32_169.12.html

I also removed network manager & gnome network manager and replaced them with Wicd as my network manager. Before someone chimes in to say how great network manager is compared to Wicd, I say if it works for you great but it wasn't working right for me ( silly little requirement I have that things actually work ). So if network manager isn't working for you then try Wicd instead.

You can install WICD by doing this -> Go to Administration > Synaptic Package Manager > Settings > Repositories > Third Party Software > Click add and insert this -> deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

Now in synaptic you can install wicd to manage your network connections.

I now am a happy camper with a fully functional laptop. Maybe in the coming weeks or months they will find more bugs in hardy to make these things behave correctly, but if not there is always a fix if you use your head instead

Good luck with your Ubuntu journey all.

[balagosa]

hey nicedude, i do have a 5007EG Wireless. its a long story.

to clarify it, i will post my "lspci" later.

and trust me, it is a 5007EG. i spent hours to look for it's driver.

and i know about the 5007EG being a 5006, i read the Atheros news about that.

info: on 7.10, My WiFi worked flawlessly. having NDiswrapper as program of choice. on 8.04, everything worked fine, including my bluetooth, except the WiFi.