I've recently bought a nice laptop (Asus X50SL) to try out some Linux distributions and Xubuntu seemed like a good start. But now I want to get my wireless working and I'm having some difficulty with that. I've browsed the forums here quite a lot, but haven't been able to find an apt solution.
lspci gives me:
Code:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
So my card is detected, right?
sudo lshw -C network:
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*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1f:c6:42:0f:5b
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis190 driverversion=1.2 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes module=sis190 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
iwconfig gives me:
Code:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
iwlist wlan0 scan:
Code:
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
No problems with it being not detected, it just doesn't show up as a wlan device?
I've tried getting it to work with madwifi, but that doesn't work. (And I don't have the cd-rom with drivers with me right now.)
Any suggestions as what I'm doing wrong/can do?