HOWTO: Atheros AR5007EG wireless

[bmartin]

As of Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10), this HOWTO is considered obsolete. Please use this wiki page instead. Credit goes to eks for pointing this out.

[fissionmailed]

I could be wrong but the madwifi patch is just for 32-bit. Unless they have a new HAL which is what I thought read was the problem.

[bmartin]

I could be wrong but the madwifi patch is just for 32-bit. Unless they have a new HAL which is what I thought read was the problem.

My mistake. I'll fix my message and link to another HOWTO.

[Snappo]

Would this work with my ar5000?

[bmartin]

Would this work with my ar5000?

As long as you're using a 32-bit OS, it should. AFAIK, MadWiFi has worked with almost all Atheros wireless chipsets for quite some time. The AR5007EG was a notable exception; my girlfriend has that chipset in her laptop. It has been painful, even with NDISwrapper.

I tried to change the title to reflect the fact that the MadWiFi drivers should work with any 32-bit *buntu... apparently I can only change the title of the first post.

[Alfred_McGee]

I used a fix based on the same tarball, posted recently by Tom-X, but it said to disable Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL), which I did. My ar5007eg card now works nicely, but when I try to suspend or hibernate my laptop, the screen goes black, fills with code and freezes until I shut the computer down. Is that a problem for people using this fix by bmartin as well? His now-outmoded ndiswrapper fix for the same wifi card was once used and loved by millions of very feisty and gutsy people, so it seems reasonable to expect that this new fix will work better than the one I'm using, or that somebody on this thread will post a solution to the suspend problem. Anyone?

[bmartin]

when I try to suspend or hibernate my laptop, the screen goes black, fills with code and freezes until I shut the computer down. Is that a problem for people using this fix by bmartin as well?

I can try performing a suspend or a hibernate on the laptop when I get home, to see if I'm having the same problem. I'll get back to you on that.

His now-outmoded ndiswrapper fix for the same wifi card was once used and loved by millions of very feisty and gutsy people

I wouldn't say it's outmoded. AFAIK, 64-bit users can't use the patched MadWiFi. I would also guess that you could try using NDISwrapper, and if it solves your problems, you might want to stick with it.

Using NDISwrapper in Hardy, my girlfriend's wireless performance was flaky, at best, whereas it was fine in Feisty and Gutsy. Hardy has so many hardware support improvements that I don't think I'll be reverting to Gutsy or Feisty any time soon.

[thecowking]

Just a quick thanks, I've been trying to get my Toshiba Equium P200-1ED to get the wifi working for weeks now, then I found this thread and it was working by the end of the first post!

My thanks

[saikas]

Hi,

I want to ask, does this code work on my Amil A1650G? Becouse i'm trying all week to work my wireless, but still nothing.
I'm new on Ubuntu and just don't know any code.

[Snappo]

As long as you're using a 32-bit OS, it should. AFAIK, MadWiFi has worked with almost all Atheros wireless chipsets for quite some time. The AR5007EG was a notable exception; my girlfriend has that chipset in her laptop. It has been painful, even with NDISwrapper.

I tried to change the title to reflect the fact that the MadWiFi drivers should work with any 32-bit *buntu... apparently I can only change the title of the first post.

I run a 32 bit system and it failed to work.