[SOLVED] Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x in 8.10

[Malet]

Here's the solutions (although both give inconsistent connections):

1. You can try the linux-backports-modules-intrepid method outlined here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=3 which people have said is a better connection, but you'll need to reload the driver every time you log in.
   OR
2. Compile latest ath5k driver:
   
   • Download the package at http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...ss-2.6.tar.bz2
   • Use file-roller (or similar) to extract the source.
   • Move to the directory you extracted in terminal.
   • paste this into terminal:
     

     make
     sudo make install
     sudo make unload
     sudo make load

If you have problems and need to uninstall you can do:

sudo make unload
sudo make uninstall

in the source directory.

[Malet]

See above post

[tednugent68]

hey i have an acer laptop with a atheros wireless card and i can't seem to get mine to work either. did you do this in terminal?

[Malet]

Putting that in terminal should work - Apparently ath5k was included in 8.10 but just disabled by default so there's probably a much easier way of doing this.

[tednugent68]

when i get to your cd compat-wireless-2.6 it says No such file or directory then when i do the sudu make install i get make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

[Malet]

Ok I think I've fixed it now - although the folder name will probably change.
it should have been

cd compat-wireless-2008-10-31

[H-N7]

I have the same card but haven't upgraded yet (still downloading ).
Thanks for posting your solution. The problem is mentioned in the Release Notes Here.
So, installing linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic should solve it. If not, your solution will become handy .

[-X-]

Thanks! It looks messy but it works. Installing the backports didn't work for me but this did.

[KermitJr]

If you goto the wireless.kernel.org website, it says they have blocked direct downloads from things such as wget if you don't get a dated file. So use a browser and goto:

http://wireless.kernel.org/download

and download it via web browser.

But for the record, I stuck in the CD, enabled it (You have to enable it in software sources or repositories or it won't work), reloaded, installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic and rebooted and it automagically worked.

So if you had trouble with the backports method, make sure you're enabling and reloading or it won't work.

Cheers,
KermitJr

[FunteX]

I've now got it working!!! for anyone with similar problems here's what I did:

wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2008-10-31.tar.bz2
tar jxvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2008-10-31
make
sudo make install
sudo make unload
sudo make load

Then reboot and it should be working in network-manager

I can confirm that this approach works very well for getting wireless connection to work on the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile v5535

Good work