Atheros Wireless Drivers

[Jaime Tarrant]

* Steven Davies-Morris (sdavmor at systemstheory.net) wrote:
> 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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I found the following on ubuntuforums, which worked well getting wireless to
work on a macbook (atheros chipset) using both ubuntu 8.04 and Debian. 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798485

HTH
--
Jaime