Atheros wireless card not seen in Network Manager

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

Amy,

I have the same wireless network device in my Acer Aspire Gemstone. 
Lucky for you its a very popular laptop because WalMart sold thousands of 
them for 350 bucks at a door buster back in early December of '07. 
Dozens of us hacked away at it collectivly all the following weekend, and 
got everything working perfectly on the laptops.  It was a thing of 
beauty.

Either way, enough with reveling in my own wonderful community experience. 
What you have to do is blacklist the ath_pci driver, it doesn't work with 
even the latest madwifi.  I tried with Hardy, and it still doesn't work. 
What you have to do is get the XP drivers for the Atheros AR5007EG and 
install them with ndiswrapper.

Specifically, I had to add:

blacklist ath_pci

To the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.  After that I rebooted and 
installed the XP driver with ndiswrapper.  If you search 
http://ubuntuforums.org for Acer Aspire Gemstone or Acer Aspire 5315 
you'll see how we all fixed this.

Good luck!

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Amy Kelly wrote:

> It's a brand new laptop with a install of 8.04 that I put on about 2
> days ago, I haven't done updates on it yet. The driver thinks it got
> there automagically, I did the install and Device Manager came up and
> said "Proprietary drivers are being used to to make your computer
> work". Still getting used to apt-get and how Ubuntu does updates, my
> desktop runs Fedora 8 (been using that for a couple of months,
> switched from Win XP) and I finally got used to how yum works. :) I'm
> wondering what I need to do to see if it sees the card or not, I'm not
> too scared of the command line but I have no idea what I need to be
> doing to find the information.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amy
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>> Amy Kelly wrote:
>>> I've got a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5868 that I've been trying to get
>>> the wireless working on. It's got the Atheros chipset, the AR5007EG,
>>> the driver manager sees the driver, but Network Manager doesn't see
>>> any active devices. I'm able to get network connection if I have it
>>> plugged in the wire. The card works in Vista. What I'm looking for is
>>> general information on stuff to try to get this to work, I'm a fairly
>>> new user and am not sure just what I should be looking for, and Google
>>> seems to be failing me here.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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>> - -how did you install the driver?
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>> - -by any chance was there a kernel upgrade recently?
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