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atheros wireless card Ubuntu

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card is listed and hardware manager says it is activated but in lshw -C network shows as unclaimed.

Any ideas? I have attempted to install madwifi but not much luck with the download.

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Ernest Yang (ernest-atheros) said : 		#1

Can you provide more information? what is your ubuntu version?
can you see atheros card by typing "lspci"? Most of atheros cards are supported by in-kernel ath5k/ath9k driver or madwifi driver.

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pigpen (bowen-jim) said : 		#2

Ubuntu 8.1 with an atheros 5007 wireless card. In the hardware manager the driver is listed and shows enabled but not functioning.

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Ernest Yang (ernest-atheros) said : 		#3

As I remeber, madwifi already supports Atheros 5007 wireless card, here is madwifi website: http://madwifi-project.org/
How about "iwconfig -a" , "ifconfig -a" and "lspci" output?

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pigpen (bowen-jim) said : 		#4

I got it working with the compat-wireless driver install. Thanks

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pigpen (bowen-jim) said : 		#5

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-get-atheros-ar5007eg-or-ar242x-wireless-cards-may-be-other-models-working-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

This method helped me, emachines E520