Hallo everyone!
as the position of this post says I'm a newby of Linux.
I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1718, and I've installed Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (in dual boot with Win Xp). No problem with that, and after install everything is fine except for the wireless adapter (Atheros ar5007eg).
I've have unsuccessfully tried different versions of madwifi drivers using this procedure:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros
The first impression with Kubuntu was excellent so, despite it's frustrating to try hundreds drivers, I don't want to give up!
With the intent of (re)starting from scratch, I've formatted Linux partition and reinstalled the OS, then I've updated the system with
then I decided to try ndsiwrapper as described here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper
I followed the procedure step by step and everything seems ok except for a prompt of ndisgtk which, after loading the driver, warn me that the hardware could not be active (sorry but I didn't take note of the exact caption of the prompt).
After reboot, in the connection manager in system tray "enable wireless" is ticked (it wasn't with previous driver) but while trying to configure a new wireless connection the scan doesn't find any network (there are 3 wifi hotspots here!).
I guess the driver are ok (see code) but the device is not switched on, despite I set wifi to be enable by the BIOS.
Pushing the wifi button nothing happen: no led and no change in ifconfig e iwconfig output.
I have read a lot of forums and guides but I still cannot understand which command i have to use to enable it by konsole. Any suggestion??
If someone has the patience I have also another questions...
It seems strange to me that ndiswrapper is the driver in use, but the kernel has still ath5. I'm sure it was disabled before installing driver with ndiswrapper and seem also to be correctly blacklisted, am I wrong??
That's all! I really hope someone would help me!
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Mattia
as the position of this post says I'm a newby of Linux.
I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1718, and I've installed Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (in dual boot with Win Xp). No problem with that, and after install everything is fine except for the wireless adapter (Atheros ar5007eg).
I've have unsuccessfully tried different versions of madwifi drivers using this procedure:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros
The first impression with Kubuntu was excellent so, despite it's frustrating to try hundreds drivers, I don't want to give up!
With the intent of (re)starting from scratch, I've formatted Linux partition and reinstalled the OS, then I've updated the system with
Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install build-essential
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper
I followed the procedure step by step and everything seems ok except for a prompt of ndisgtk which, after loading the driver, warn me that the hardware could not be active (sorry but I didn't take note of the exact caption of the prompt).
After reboot, in the connection manager in system tray "enable wireless" is ticked (it wasn't with previous driver) but while trying to configure a new wireless connection the scan doesn't find any network (there are 3 wifi hotspots here!).
I guess the driver are ok (see code) but the device is not switched on, despite I set wifi to be enable by the BIOS.
Code:
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d3:63:13:79
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2640 (2.6 KB) TX bytes:2640 (2.6 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:a8:d9:db:7e
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:16 Memory:c0000000-c0010000
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 185404 0
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:c0:a8:d9:db:7e
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+net5211 driverversion=1.55+,07/26/2007,5.3.0.67 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
resources: irq:16 memory:c0000000-c000ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:0a:07.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:d3:63:13:79
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:23 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c0200000-c02000ff
I have read a lot of forums and guides but I still cannot understand which command i have to use to enable it by konsole. Any suggestion??
If someone has the patience I have also another questions...
Code:
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ lspci -k
[…]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper
Kernel modules: ath5k
mattia@mattia-laptop:~$ grep -r "ath5k" /etc/modprobe.d/
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf~:# wifi ath5k (default free drivers)
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf~:blacklist ath5k
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf:# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# wifi ath5k (default free drivers)
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:blacklist ath5k
That's all! I really hope someone would help me!
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Mattia
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