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Atheros Communications driver missing?

Asked by Jon Elmer

I have an asus x58L and a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.0.4

I run the
sudo lshw -C network

I get
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Atheros Communications Inc.
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0

Wired internet runs fine, but not the wi-fi ! WHY ? i don't see the presence of any wireless interface. Do I need another driver? Have looked around for forum for similar questions and there are a few - just none of the answers make much sense to me - I'm an absolute beginner in linux. Thanks for your help.

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sintacto (sintacto) said : 		#1

usualy atheros works out of the box for me for a while
maybe try in the terminal
sudo modprobe ath_pci
then sudo dhclient
also ifconfig,iwconfig, are helpfull to see settings etc.
do you have wireless-tools installed
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

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Jon Elmer (jonpelmer) said : 		#2

Yep, got wireless tools installed.

Here's the response from terminal window:

jon@jon-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe ath_pci
[sudo] password for jon:
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

....I think that's the problem then. Any idea what to do about it?

jon@jon-laptop:~$ sudo dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:23:54:8c:f0:87
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:23:54:8c:f0:87
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.105 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.105 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.105 -- renewal in 39605 seconds.
jon@jon-laptop:~$

...which just proves the wired network is working.

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Best sintacto (sintacto) said : 		#3

try this
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules madwifi-tools
i would do a little googlin about madwifi and atheros for more info

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Jon Elmer (jonpelmer) said : 		#4

Thanks for your help. Since you said it worked straight out of the box, did a complete reinstall using 8.10 and it worked first time.

Cheers again,
Jon