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wifi and sound not working

Asked by drskartik

I am using ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-24 generic.
All of a sudden my sound and wifi have stopped working, probably while installing some routine updates through update manager.
On pressing vol control following message appears:
"The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured."

lspci-v shows the following for wifi adapter:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Unknown device 1a32:0112
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 Memory at f6cf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

I tried earlier generic version 2.6.23, sound was working in that version but wifi was still not worki

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

may be this link might help

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-get-atheros-ar5007eg-or-ar242x-wireless-cards-may-be-other-models-working-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

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drskartik (drskartik) said : 		#3

My sound card is now working, but couldn't get wifi on track.
went into the link mentioned ago but am getting stuck in the second step: I get this message:
kartik@kartik-laptop:~$ sudo tar -jxvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
tar: compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

How to get beyond this?

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Congrats on getting the sound-card sorted. Please give a brief summary of what you did to fix it to help others with a similar problem looking through the "Solved Answers" database to find an answer when they have the same trouble.

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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