Touble getting ath5k wifi working on Ubuntu 11.10

[Jan Mostert]

Hi, I'm having trouble getting the wifi working on Acer Travelmate 2450
which supposedly uses ath5k
The driver was working fine on Ubuntu 9.10, but stopped working as soon as
we upgraded the machine to 11.10

What we've tried so far is to blacklist the ath5k driver in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and setup ndiswrapper using a windows XP
driver for it. Doing this, we manage to see the wifi networks, but can't
connect to any of them (using the KDE network manager).

After blacklisting the ndiswrapper, restarting again and trying to svn
checkout the latest version of madwifi and doing a make && make install,
there was no trace of wifi on the system whatsoever.

Have also installe wicd to see if it makes config easier, but no luck.
I case you're wondering, the wifi is working, currently running my macbook
via the wifi, just can't the Acer note book to connect via wifi.

For the last 4 days, we've tried about every blog article on the ah5k and
ath9k we could find and still it's a problem.

lspci dump:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
(rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
(rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
(rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev
80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]
09:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg
NIC (rev 01)
09:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev
01)
09:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)



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Jan Vladimir Mostert
BEngSci

MyCee Technologies
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