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Atheros AR5B93 solved on Acer 5738z in Kharmic Koala

Asked by fiklein

I am not exactly a Newbie, running two laptops and a desktop in Ubuntu, but had been stumped in Jaunty with an Atheros wifi. I decided to try Kharmic as a clean install after days of failure with Jaunty. I had tried Ndiswrapper in Jaunty and a couple other driver suggestions and protocols, and was preparing to post all my lspci's and lsmod's for somebody to help. Kharmic Koala worked without any modifications for this card, which had been detected as an AR928x in Jaunty. Thank you developers, and if anybody is stumped by an Atheros wifi, try Kharmic before you work hard at an earlier distro.

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gig_76 (madmax-it) said : 		#1

i serch with google and

I found a possible solution, yet I have not tested, can anyone confirm if it works? I dont have the laptop with me right now

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13807

https://launchpad.net/~frank-dekervel/+archive/ppa

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fiklein (fiklein) said : 		#2

Maybe I spoke too soon. I get a good connection for a while, then it weakens and cuts off after 10minutes to an hour. Very usable, but not optimal. I have not tried any fixes, yet. I am also sharing the network with at least two other users and it is not encrypted as I have family and friends who come by with their laptops. At times, even the wired connections go down, but my Win 7 connection is more stable on the same computer as the karmic, so I think there may be something wrong with the driver. i plan to try:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic
if I continue having problems. Anybody have luck with this?

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fiklein (fiklein) said : 		#3

I think it really is solved now. I went to Synaptic package manager, selected and applied:
linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic
and whatever dependencies that it designated. Everything has been running perfectly, with great wifi connectivity and no unexpected shutdowns. I find synaptic easier than a terminal and the fact that it will automatically load dependencies makes it more likely to work. I have solved other problems in terminals, but there is more room for error and it is harder to clean up any mess that might be created. I now have loaded Ubuntu on 3 laptops and a desktop, and have dual boot with Windows XP, Vista, and "7" now running.