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I can't make my wifi work (atheros)

Asked by Melzy

I did my research and tried the suggestions of people in the internet which basically revolves on two methods: 1)madwifi and 2)the wrapper thingy.

WRAPPER THINGY:
After the steps in the net, my system tells me that I have successfully installed the .inf of atheros' windows driver. My wifi still doesn't work. There was no wifi option in my network connection.

MADWIFI:
I downloaded the one in their website. I did the make, make install. That was successful. I also typed the "modprob ath0" command. I didn't get any response so i didn't know if it was ok or not. After that my wifi still doesn't work and when i type "iwconfig" I can't in the list ath0 which was supposed to be there if the installation was successful.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thank you!

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#1

i had got mine working through ndiswrapper. try it out.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

To get you a supplemental info the incoming (will be released October 2008) Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"
make my Acer Aspire one Atheros cards works out of the box.

I think Ubuntu 8.10 is usable it have little minor issue, i use it on 5 pc, if you want upgrade your system, please tell.

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