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WiFi not working in a Acer Aspire 3102NWLMi

Asked by Carlos Moura

I have Ubuntu 6.06 installed in my Acer Aspire 3012NWLMi in dual boot with XP.
The wireless card ( Atheros 5224, as seen on Device Manager ) is not working.
At lspci command i see:
0000:06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01)
Dapper is up to date with the Update Manager.
I installed also the Network Manager Applet 0.6.2
The wireless card is working fine with XP.
Please help!
Thanks, Carlos

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Carlos Moura (carlosmoura) said : 		#1

The right card model is AR5005G. Carlos

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) said : 		#2

Carlos,
Ubuntu should support the Atheros drivers via madwifi. Madwifi is part of the "linux-restricted-modules" package due to its licensing, but you should be able to install it if you haven't already.

Check to make sure you have that package installed first. The next thing I would do is turn off the encryption on your access point (temporarily) and see if you can connect.

From a command prompt you should be able to see an "ath0" device with the "ifconfig" command.

If you still can't connect try posting the output to the following commands:

"lsmod"
"iwconfig ath0"
"ifconfig ath0"
"iwlist ath0 scan"
"dmesg | egrep 'ath|wifi'"

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SageMassa (jedd.bissegger) said : 		#3

This may be of use.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Ndiswrapper_for_Broadcom_43xx_wireless_chipset

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