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AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) not working in Ubuntu 8.10

Asked by Mario

Hi all,

I got Ubuntu 8.10, my wireless card is atheros AR5004G

The problem that I have is that my wireless interface shows "unclaimed", I was working fine but I was trying to setup manually (command line) WEP key and I messed up, now, the interface is disable and I cannot connect to any network.

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#1

Not sure about this card but I had a couple of people here with AR242 cards that could make it work by using the following walkthrough:

http://madberry.org/2008/11/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-to-work-on-810-intrepid-ibex/

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi Mario,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using a LAN cable.

Then please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (copy-paste each line below to the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo iwlist scanning
nm-tool
iwconfig
ifconfig
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -nn
lsusb
uname -a
dmesg | grep ound
dmesg | grep witch

Step 3: Please provide us with the exact model and make of your PC

Step 4: Post results (cut/paste terminal output from each command) here

Regards,

Mark

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Mario (mgsmario) said : 		#3

Hi Mark,

Here is the answers

mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for mgonzalez:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: 8139too
  State: unavailable
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:02:3F:D4:48:BB

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes
    Carrier Detect: yes
    Speed: 10 Mb/s

  Wired Settings

mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3f:d4:48:bb
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:752 (752.0 B) TX bytes:752 (752.0 B)

mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:0 UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=80 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:02:3f:d4:48:bb
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=128 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: a6:40:6d:02:cd:02
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ lspci -nm
00:00.0 "0600" "1002" "5831" -r02 "1179" "ff00"
00:01.0 "0604" "1002" "5838" "" ""
00:13.0 "0c03" "1002" "4347" -r01 -p10 "1179" "ff00"
00:13.1 "0c03" "1002" "4348" -r01 -p10 "1179" "ff00"
00:13.2 "0c03" "1002" "4345" -r01 -p20 "1179" "ff00"
00:14.0 "0c05" "1002" "4353" -r18 "1179" "ff00"
00:14.1 "0101" "1002" "4349" -p8a "1179" "ff00"
00:14.3 "0601" "1002" "434c" "1179" "ff00"
00:14.4 "0604" "1002" "4342" -p01 "" ""
00:14.5 "0401" "1002" "4341" "1179" "ff01"
00:14.6 "0703" "1002" "434d" -r01 "1179" "0001"
01:05.0 "0300" "1002" "5835" "1179" "ff02"
02:00.0 "0c00" "104c" "8026" -p10 "1179" "ff00"
02:02.0 "0200" "168c" "0013" -r01 "144f" "7064"
02:03.0 "0200" "10ec" "8139" -r10 "1179" "ff00"
02:04.0 "0607" "1524" "1411" "1179" "ff01"
02:04.1 "0501" "1524" "0530" "1179" "ff00"
02:04.2 "0805" "1524" "0550" -p01 "1179" "ff01"
02:04.3 "0501" "1524" "0520" "1179" "ff00"
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux mgonzalez-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ dmesg|grep ound
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f6ae0] 000f6ae0
[ 0.352022] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...
[ 0.608208] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 2.244531] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 2.313860] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 3.228632] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.392535] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.435630] No dock devices found.
[ 3.508492] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 49.648042] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.0 [1179:ff01]
[ 49.993055] sdhci-pci 0000:02:04.2: SDHCI controller found [1524:0550] (rev 0)
[ 61.098639] apm: BIOS not found.
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$ dmesg|grep witch
[ 1.156547] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
[ 1.160071] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 1.213526] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
[ 49.400288] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input4
[ 49.400410] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
mgonzalez@mgonzalez-laptop:~$

My computer is a toshiba satellite a75 s226

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using a LAN cable.

# Then please try this Atheros driver installation procedure:

# First under System/Administration/HardwareDrivers, disable both the Atheros HAL and the Atheros wireless thing and then reboot.

# Then from a terminal type (press enter key after each line)

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install build-essential subversion

cd ~

mkdir madwifi

cd madwifi

svn co https://217.24.1.142/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6

make

sudo make install

sudo gedit /etc/modules

# Now add the Atheros kernel module ath_pci to the list of modules to be automatically loaded at boot by adding

ath_pci

# to the end of the /etc/modules file. (Gedit editor automatically opens)

Now you can reboot and it should work.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mark

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Mario (mgsmario) said : 		#5

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.