Need help with wireless card.

[NoOp]

On 02/03/2009 03:45 PM, jerry wrote:
> I am using Kubuntu 8.04.2.
> lspci says I have Atheros Communications Inc. ar2413 802.11 bg NIC (REV 01).
> I had been using kernel 2.6.24-16-generic and could enter the ESSID and 
> password, and the wireless would work.
> 
> A few weeks ago the updates installed a new kernel 2.6.24-23-generic and 
> since then I cannot even get the card recognized by iwconfig.
> iwconfig says
> lo   no wireless extensions
> eth0 no wireless extensions
> 
> I figure there must be something not implemented in the new kernel that 
> prevents the wireless from working, but I cannot find it. Even if I did 
> find out what it was I would not know how to correct it short of 
> recompiling the kernel.
> 
> I would appreciate any help to get the wireless card working with the 
> new kernel.
> 

Does the card still work if you boot into -16?

<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bhardy+%2BAtheros+%2Bar2413>

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros
[search on atheros from there]
** OT: anyone notice that Google has taken over help.ubuntu.com?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi

Might be of help.

Do you have the -23 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-23-generic
installed? Perhaps:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-restricted-modules madwifi-tools

might work?