Activation of a wireless Network

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Robert Lutaaya <klutaaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I salute you all; New member to the list.
>>
>> I have just acquired an aspire 4315 laptop, installed is Ubuntu 7:10 OS. I
>> cant access the wireless card however its detected (Atheros)
>>
>> Should i go ahead and download the madawifi 0.9.4 file to boost ma note
>> book?
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>>     
>
> Oh please please, if you get a straight answer on how to do this
> please please let me know because I have an Aspire 4520 with an
> Atheros wireless adapter and I can't get it to work and according to
> Hardware Drivers Manager its detected and installed just like with
> your laptop.
>
>   
It does the same thing with me.  It detects the drivers, but it doesn't 
work.  You have to blacklist those drivers in /etc/modules.d/blacklist 
by adding "blacklist ath_pci" and use ndiswrapper with the XP drivers.