Dynex wireless g desktop adapter not recognized

[armoth]

So I recently purchased a dynex wireless g network adapter for my desktop, and i'm having a hell of a time getting it to even show up on my device menu, as far what i've done to try to fix it, i've downloaded the drivers and tried to open it with wine from the supplied disk, which ends up in a crash of the application the moment it trys to load, and i've checked in konsole with lspci, and have found no network devices listed besides my ethernet 10/100. Any suggestions?

[kreggz]

Think that card is atheros so try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi

[armoth]

well i got to the end of the madwifi install and i ran into an error

$ wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device


and also, at the moment im using a usb device to use the internet so my wlan0 is being used, but that shouldn't effect it should it?

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:"default"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:50:18:45:42:D2
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=59/100 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise level:-115 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[kjjjjshab]

Think that card is atheros...

Just for kicks you could try the II A6, with 2.6.27 goodness, that comes with the ath9k driver... my atheros was recognized for the first time without hoops... so that way, if you think you will be installing/upgrading next month you can gauge how hard you want to try now...

[armoth]

Just for kicks you could try the II A6, with 2.6.27 goodness, that comes with the ath9k driver...

happen to have the source for that?

[kjjjjshab]

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/

Note the shiny new warning at top for Intel ethernet hardware... :o