[Ubuntu-BR] wireless atheros - 8.04

[Renato Cosentino]

caros,

nao consigo colocar pra funcionar o wireless do meu laptop toshiba. seguindo
algumas recomendacoes aqui da lista, cheguei as seguintes informacoes:

17:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

renato em renato-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

renato em renato-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:ec:03:e4:25
          inet addr:201.53.57.96  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.240.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:ecff:fe03:e425/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:512189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:21576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:74068330 (70.6 MB)  TX bytes:2133425 (2.0 MB)
          Interrupt:252 Base address:0xe000

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:442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:27276 (26.6 KB)  TX bytes:27276 (26.6 KB)

alguem me ajuda?

obrigado!

renato