Touble getting ath5k wifi working on Ubuntu 11.10

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Jan Mostert <jan.mostert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Try installing linux-firmware-nonfree package, remove the blacklists,
and check if it works.

This has been the solution for probably all
the-wireless-is-not-working issues I have seen in this mailing list.


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