getting Atheros wireless to work on Ubuntu 7.04

Asked by Vic

I'm trying to get my wireless card to work with ubuntu 7.06 for 64 bits.

It's an Atheros AR5007EG.

I found on a web site that I could use a windows driver that was provided there (it's the windows 32-bit driver) (802ABG_Atheros_v5_1_1_9.zip is the file I downloaded).

Here are the set of instructions I followed:

Chipset: Atheros AR5007EG (rev 01)

PCI ID: 168c:001c

Download the windows 32-bit drivers from here.

Download and install the last version of ndiswrapper (it works from 1.45 version), installation

Try to remove the module ath_pci to let ndiswrapper to use the wifi.

     "sudo rmmod ath_pci" or "sudo modprobe -r ath_pci"

also try put that module in the blacklist of modprobe to avoid his

loading on the startup:

          sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-common

Insert this line:

        blacklist ath_pci

Then restart.

When u will boot again.

Load the windows driver it from the uncompress folder:

       #ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

 then install to modprobe

       #ndiswrapper -m

I did everything they said but with the last one (ndiswrapper -m) this is what it displays:

module configuration already contains alias directive

I'm new to linux so any help would be really appreciated.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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Vic (vice-yo) said :
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Ok, after a few digging I finally got my wireless working. The problem was that the driver I was trying to use was for 32 bits and my Ubuntu is 64 bits. Well, just follow the steps above but make sure to use the correct driver.

Here I post two links for both drivers (32 and 64 bits).

http://es.geocities.com/vice_yo/XP-x32.zip

http://es.geocities.com/vice_yo/XP-x64.zip

I hope this is useful for others.

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Vic (vice-yo) said :
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Ok, problem solved.

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Dumar (dumar-ramirez) said :
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Vic, I want to thank you because I was doing the same error, my ubuntu gutsy is a 64 bits version for my toshiba AMD turion 64x2, and I was using the wrong driver, you xp-64.zip worked fine and my atheros ar5007eg is working now. The Ubuntu gutsy amd64 has recongnized my integrated webcam and mic, and the sd slot, and now the wireless. My ati radeon video is working full. So thanks again.