failed to use wireless network on my Toshiba L40 laptop

Asked by Richard

I installed ubuntu gutsy on my Toshiba L40 laptop.The wireless network did not work all the time.
I googled again and again, but not sucessful.
I read the site:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Ubuntu

and this one as well:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

and tried some other sites that I forgot, but never succeed.

here is the output of lspci, lshw and lsmod, please help.

sudo lspci -v |grep net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
05:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

sudo lshw -C network
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR5006EG 802.11 b/g 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
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 7
       bus info: pci@0000:05:07.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:1a:92:a8:f2:d8
       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=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s

sudo lsmod |grep ath
ath_pci 114088 0
wlan 211120 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 233952 1 ath_pci

Again, I really need your help.
Btw, I tried feisty, mandriva, too.

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Daniel de Souza Telles (danielsouza) said :
#1

hi Richard, In the configuration screen in the kind of password select WEP(ascii) and not WEP(hexadecimal), I have do this in my PC and it is working perfectly.

Sorry the wrong words, im brazilian and i dont speak english perfectly.

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Richard (lawyerchu-gmail) said :
#2

thanks for reply quickly.

The wireless device is not usable, so not to say the wep stuff.
But thanks anyway.

By the way I tried ndiswrapper successfully, it worked.
Should I mark the question solved?

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Daniel de Souza Telles (danielsouza) said :
#3

I think u don't have any matter in your wireless device. Im correctly???

Which this is true, the question is solved.

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Richard (lawyerchu-gmail) said :
#4

hi, I don't exactly understand what you mean, sorry.

By the way, right now my laptop is selling to somebody, so I think I should mark the question solved...

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samiconn (samiconn) said :
#5

Hi, I also have a same problem with my Toshiba latop. I'm using Atheros Ar5007EG card for wireless device and I can't install driver for it. I don't know how to install driver for wireless device before I read this topic because I'm not used to set up ubuntu, I'm a new. Now, I try do way which you notified above. Thanks you. I will post my problem if I can't correct it. I'm vietnamese.

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Daniel de Souza Telles (danielsouza) said :
#6

What is your wirelles card? The same of Richard?

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Daniel de Souza Telles (danielsouza) said :
#7

I linked to a existing bug. See this tutorial to resolve the problem:

http://translate.google.com.br/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dicas-l.com.br%2Fdicas-l%2F20080604.php&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&sl=pt&tl=en

The tutorial is on Portuguese language, then i translated with Google translate.