Cannot turn wireless adatptor on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li 1718

Searching internet here what i found, not so easy to a newbie, by the way i put as your reference here, if you want we can help you:

1. Disable ath_pci

#sudo rmmod ath_pci

2. put that module in the blacklist of modprobe to avoid it loading on the startup:

#sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-common

3. add the following line at the end of the file

blacklist ath_pci

4. Remove madwifi

#cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
#sudo rm -rf net
#sudo rm -rf madwifi
#sudo rm -rf madwifi-ng

5. cd /to your directory of madwifi-version (if it exists), do the following:
sudo make clean (you can do this step again and again to make sure madwifi is removed completely)

6. Check for the existence of any of the following modules, wlan, ath_hal, ath_pci.

#lsmod

and remove them by typing

#sudo rmmod (moduleName)

NOW REBOOT

7. Use the synaptic package manager & Install the package called "build-essential".

8. put ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz in folder /home/username/ (at least version 1.47 must be used)

#cd /home/username/

9. Extract archive & install

#sudo tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz
#cd /home/username/ndiswrapper-1.47/
#sudo make
#sudo make install

10. Install driver by first exracting xp driver files into home folder then:

#sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
#sudo ndiswrapper -l
#sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

#dmesg (shows that the card installed)
#iwlist wlan0 scan (will show all APs arround you)

#sudo ndiswrapper -m

11.REBOOT

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In Addition to the ndiwswrapper-module I downloaded acer_acpi
(Please google for the Url I don't have it available)
compiled the module modprobe acer_acpi
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224349&highlight=acer_acpi
and then issued following command as root:
echo 1 > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
The wlan-LED should turns on now and you should have a functioning and working wlan.

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http://www.amilo-forum.com/topic,929,-linux-on-amilo-li-1718.html?hilit=ubuntu+wifi

HTH

Hi

Thanks a lot for this so i tired to install acer_acpi on Heron 8.04

when I ran the line

echo "enabled: 1">/proc/acpi/acer/wireless

i get the error
bash: echo: write error: invalid argument

Anyway round this?

Thanks
Alan

Hi,

I found a possible solution for your issue here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=683919

Before running the script http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roadras...op/fsca16xx.sh, make sure the Linux headers for your current kernel are also installed.

After running the script, make sure to reboot your laptop before testing the wireless connection again.

Regards,

Mark

Hi again

Well i tried that and it informed me that it will not work with my version of Ubuntu which is 8.04 LTS.

I did read on the blog for the code that this script will come packaged with the next release of unbuntu .

So at this point after trying a hundred solutions and learning way more command line than i expected to or wanted in the past 2 days i am going to give up.

Thanks for your help it's so refreshing and warms the heart to learn that Linux users really are nice people.

I will return in October when ubuntu 8.10 is released.

Thanks again

Alan

Hi Alan,

I heard on another forum that the http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roadras...op/fsca16xx.sh script works, but only on Ubuntu version 7.10. So if you do a fresh install of Ubuntu v7.10 (not a downgrade) and then run the http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roadras...op/fsca16xx.sh script, wireless should work.

An alternative, (maybe) more difficult route is to follow the instructions here for your Atheros AR5007EG wireless chipset:

The following link explains how to enable the wireless antenna of the Amilo Li1718 using a softswitch:
http://www.knights-of-camelot.nl/?page_id=12

More info on Atheros AR5007EG chipset: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros

Or - as you said - you can wait for Ubuntu 8.10 :-)

Kind regards,

Mark