Atheros Wireless Drivers

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Jaime Tarrant wrote:
> * 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.

> 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

Thanks for the link, Jaime. I may give it a try today since I can always
roll back to using the ndiswrapper around the official .INF file to
create a driver. Of course, as soon as I put the new kernel on the
laptop, it may work without any additional sleight of hand.
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