Atheros wireless card not seen in Network Manager

[Amy Kelly]

Thanks for the information! We're going to give it a shot today and
see how it goes. I had been Googling using the exact model of laptop,
which is likely why I was having no luck. Good to know about which
driver to use, thanks.

amy

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II
<arthur.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>>>>
>>>
>>> - -how did you install the driver?
>>>
>>> - -by any chance was there a kernel upgrade recently?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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