josefcarel: I did some more searching because this card really should work with madwifi, but there are other users reporting issues with the 168c:001c devices. You're not the only person I've tried to help lately with this kind of problem.
The most promising reference that I found is
this page, which has instructions for compiling the ath5k driver, which might work better for your card than ath_pci. If you want to install ath5k, first download
this file and save it to your desktop.
Next, type:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
A file will open. Look for a line that says
blacklist ath5k (probably at the end of the file). Delete this line, then save and close the file.
Then run these commands:
Code:
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo update-rc.d -f linux-restricted-modules-common remove
cd ~/Desktop
tar xvf compat*
cd compat*
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential
make
sudo make install
sudo make unload
sudo make load
Do you have a wireless connection recognized now by typing the 'iwconfig' command?
If this causes problems, just reboot and you should have ndiswrapper again. If these commands make your wireless work better than with ndiswrapper, let me know and we can make ath5k drive the card permanently.
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