Atheros Wireless Drivers

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Sam Albers wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who helped me with my previous post.
> 
> So now I have booted up Ubuntu and everything seems to work fine except 
> one thing, which I will explain in a second. I can assume that because 
> everything is working well that all the drivers have been automatically 
> sorted out by Ubuntu right?
> 
> The only thing is that I received an error message telling me that my 
> wireless drivers were not supported by Ubuntu. Now a couple of 
> questions. Does this mean that there is simply no open-source version of 
> my drivers and that the regular ones can work? Or does it mean that 
> there is no way that my wireless setup will ever work on Ubuntu?
> 
> I have as a wireless setup:
> 
> Atheros Hardware Access Layer
> Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards
> 
> These are the two components that Ubuntu told were not working properly. 
> Incidentally, my wireless connection is actually working. Is this 
> because my computer is somehow using Windows for this process?
> 
> Anyways, thanks for everyone's help!


I have a PCMCIA bus airlink wireless-g card on my laptop which has just 
been upgraded to Hardy 8.04 this weekend.  It uses the Atheros 
restricted drivers automatically installed.  However I could not get it 
to see my wireless router.

The fix for me was to deactivate the Atheros drivers in Ubuntu, get my 
windows install floppy, install the NDIS wrapper program via synaptic, 
tell it which INF file to us and voila...System>Network was able to 
configure and connect using WPA2.  Nice.

Note:  I also tried WiFi-radar, which I'd had good luck with under Gutsy 
when we used WEP. No joy with WPA2, which a half-perusal online suggests 
to be par for the course.  YMMV on that one.
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