Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

[enigmageek]

Hello all. I have a Toshiba A205 S5843 laptop with AR5007EG chipset. Using the original instructions with the newest ath_hal, wireless works perfectly. I recently built the latest 2.6.27 kernel from kernel.org in Hardy cuz I don't want to give up my KDE 3.5.10 by upgrading to Intrepid. I installed DKMS to recompile certain drivers upon kernel updates, madwifi, virtualbox, etc., automatically. I have the dkms.conf file for madwifi_hal and it works great. Just a thought. If anyone wants, I can post the dkms conf and commands to add, build, etc. Also I use scripts to reset networking, set link speed, etc. after resume from suspend.
Regards,
Ray
Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4.1- 2.6.27.5
Windows Vista and XP via VirtualBox

[theundecided]

I need help... I tryed to install via step by step and it worked the first time...then it stoped working... I deleated the madwifi folder trying to uninstall the driver...then (tried) to reinstall but to no avail... I got this message

mjrindewitt@Lappy:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
mjrindewitt@Lappy:~$

[greymoose58]

Undecided,

Did you run the code?

 dpkg --configure -a

You will need to run it as root. As far as I understand it corrects any configuration errors it is able to. Hopefully that will solve your problem. If it doesn't post the output here and someone may be able to suggest another approach.

Whatever the outcome you aren't alone. My wireless died again too. I've been running on a cable network until I have time to get back to it.

[theundecided]

I did but it didn't do anything...is it best to just format my partition and re install ubuntu... (I just installed it like yesterday)
thanks for your help

btw here is the code I put in and its output

root@Lappy:/home/mjrindewitt# dpkg --configure -a
root@Lappy:/home/mjrindewitt#

[nolimits76]

Reasors...thanx a million for posting the instructions bro, it saved my rear! Yes, I'm a noob and the step-by-step guide helped bunches.

My specifics...HP Pavillion dv9999us, 64 bit, Intrepid 8.10

Not alot of info out there for the dv9999us yet, but it does work for those with the same model.

[HanDerre]

*buys a round of Jack Daniels and Jamaican Red-Stripe to all and everyone*


You guys helped me finally get my wi-fi up and running on my AAO 110L. After 2 months of pulling nasal hairs in frustration of sending it back to service twice due to software and BIOS-errors, trying to loose the ash-ugly Acer desktop and tweaking the xfce-environment resulting in a dozen revoveries daily the last week and installing and uninstalling: Mandriva 2009, Fedora10, Ubuntu8.04UNR, Ubuntu 8.10lpia-mid and finally 8.10 desktop I FINALLY have a netbook that is eye-candy and chic-magnet at hotspots!

I have now a EXT2 set-up and wi-fi running smooth and this guide really did it for me so pardon my euforia but the above mentioned beverages are starting to kick in!

*KUDOS*

Best regards,

HanDerre

[lionstone]

Just wanted to add that the approach by gabsik worked like a charm on a new lenovo thinkpad t400 with the standard wifi driver ( the AR242x rev 01 )... Many thanks!

[gentlejunk]

hi, thanx so much for step by step directions for all time nwby like me

i have a problem:

after typing make (following the directions):

gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ sudo make install
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.22
cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.22
Makefile.inc:66: *** /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.22 is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24.22
cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24.22
Makefile.inc:66: *** /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24.22 is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-22
./kernelversion.c:13:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-22/.config does not exist.. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-22-rt
cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-22-rt
Makefile.inc:66: *** /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-22-rt is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make clean
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$ make
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-rt/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
gj@ubuntu:~/madwifi/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6$

tried different approaches, am somehow inclined to think that its real time kernel that i should direct my path to, but that there is something missing. im not sure where karnel path is but in /usr/src have only linux-headers-2.6.24-22 and same but generic one

?

can anyone

[gentlejunk]

hi again, few hours later

tried with

sudo make install KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/build
to install into generic kernel,, it makes whole proces, but after rebooting i stil dont have wireless

here is lspci -v | less
if thats any help

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1a32:0105
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>




crushed

[abhilashkumar]

@reasoner

Your guide worked great for me on my fresh install of 8.10 today.
ndiswrapper used to do duty in 8.04, but it refused to compile on 8.10.

Thanks a lot.

By the way I have an Acer 4520 laptop with the same wlan card.