Quote Originally Posted by monsag View Post
I do not have an Atheros 5006/7 wireles card, but I had a similar problem before. Though I need not reinstalll any driver for the installed wireless card for my laptop, I had to do Manual Configuration with the Hardy-supplied Network Manager, and re-type my keyphrase afer each reboot.

You may want to try downloading Wicd:

http://wicd.net/download.php

I have done the same thing for the wireless Hardy desktops in my office. My laptop has an Intel wireless NIC and the desktops in my workplace have a D-Link PCI wireless cards. Sorry, I do not recall the exact model of the D-Link wireless card.

It worked for me, and I hope will work for you too.

Mon Sagullo


Thanks, but no go. Installed and couldn't connect at all, so i had to reinstall network manager. Jualin, this is what I used to install the driver.

For 64-bit Users

1. Blacklist the default driver:

echo “blacklist ath_pci” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

2. Download the 64 bit driver

wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-64-0.2.tar.gz

3. Extract driver using the following command

tar xvf ar5007eg-*.tar.gz

tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz

4. Ensure you have your kernel headers and the build essential package.

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

5. Install ndisgtk

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk

Either use ndisgtk to install the driver or

sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

6. Load up ndiswrapper every time Linux is loaded

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

echo “ndiswrapper” | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Restart your system.

Thank you.