How To Get Atheros AR242x To Work on 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

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Updates

**02-24-2009** Instructions for fix after update to kernel 2.6.27-11-generic below.  This how to uses compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar.bz2. It was tested on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2. Kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic & 2.6.27-9-generic

For instructions on getting the AR242x to work on 8.04 click here.

Introduction

You could see this as part 3 in the series: How To Get Atheros AR242x Wireless To Work
It’s with disappointment that I have to report the following:

I started with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10, the reason for this is simple I wanted to make sure that nobody could say “you should have done a clean install”. On a clean install out of the box the AR242x doesn’t work.

What I Tried First

So I started to search for solutions. There a several solutions out there here is a quick list:

  • Install linux-backports-modules-intrepid. This works but you would have to reload the driver every time you log on.
  • Blacklist ath_hal and ath_pci. This didn’t work for me. The idea behind this is that the madwifi module will not load and instead ath5k is used.
  • Download and install the new wireless driver which uses the newest version of ath5k.

    • The last option worked the best for me so that is what I’ll go with for this how to. Let me clarify that ath_hal, ath5k and ath9k are all developed by madwifi so props to them for doing such a great job of developing the drivers that make wireless for the AR242x work under Linux.

    How To Get The AR242X To Work

    Okay let’s get to the how to. I found this solution on the Ubuntu forums and credit goes to Malet for provinding the information in the first place.

    Disclaimer:
    The Package we’re about to use is as far as I know in beta. Installing this package might make your installation of Kubuntu(or Ubuntu) unstable. I am not responsible for any problems that arise after installing this package. But do feel free to post a comment for help if something doesn’t work right I will respond back and try to work with you to fix it. I am NOT responsible for damage to hardware as a result of applying anything you find on this website.

    This how to uses Terminal (Konsole) and nano the best small text editor for terminal.

    If you had linux-restricted-modules installed please completely remove these by running the following commands:

    sudo update-rc.d -f linux-restricted-modules-common remove

    Let’s make sure you have the right wireless adapter run this command in Terminal:

    lspci | grep Atheros

    If the result of that command is something like this:

    05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

    This solution might also work for your wireless chipset so feel free to try it but no guaranty’s there.

    First Let’s make sure we are on the desktop in Terminal:

    cd ~/Desktop

    Then let’s download the new driver (in Linux mostly called Module):

    If re-running this after the Kernel update to 2.6.27-11-generic then run this line — and skip the next one — otherwise skip this and go to line below.

    wget -c http://undiff.com/wp-content/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

    Please bare with me as I now have to manually change the file to the next date every night at 10pm. If you get a 404 then please change the date part in the file below to the next day. Example if it says 2009-01-26 and you get a 404 then change it to 2009-01-27 in the file to be downloaded below.

    I will have to keep doing this until the universal file that I was using before is updating again. Thank for you patience.

    wget -c http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar.bz2

    Now untar: 

    tar xvf compat*.tar.bz2

    Go into the directory:

    cd compat*

    Let’s install the new Module:
    First get the build-essential package installed:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential

    Then run the following:

    make
    sudo make install
    sudo make unload
    sudo make load

    The sudo make load command might produce some errors don’t worry about this it loads the ath5k module just fine.

    Now reboot you’re box.
    You should have wireless after rebooting just run:

    iwconfig

    The result could look like this:

    lo no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

    wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

    wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”linksys”
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:AA:AF:58
    Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
    Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality=93/100 Signal level:-43 dBm Noise level=-103 dBm
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

    pan0 no wireless extensions.

    If so then you can now configure your wireless settings please don’t forget to post a comment below to tell us it worked.

    If there is no wlan0 and you have to run the make load command every time you boot then this might be because the ath5k module is not loading on boot. In this case run this command:

    echo ath5k | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

    This will add ath5k to the modules to be loaded at boot. Thank you HL for figuring this one out.

    Sudhir had the problem that some of you seem to have as well. The driver didn’t find any networks. Here is his solution:

    Originally Posted By Sudhir Thalore
    But no wireless networks were getting detected by the network manager. After some more googling I disabled Bluetooth using system->administration->services and voila – wireless is now working like a champion.

    If it didn’t work then please post a comment below include the results of the following commands:

    uname -a
    cat /etc/issue
    iwconfig
    iwlist wlan0 scanning

    In Closing

    Please use the pastebin and post the link you get in the comment. I want to keep the comments readable.

    As always if something changes I will update this post. This means if there is a Kernel update and this solution doesn’t work any more then this is the place where you will find how to fix it.

    I can’t stress enough how important your comments are even if the solution works for you. The comments are used by people with similar chipsets on different computers so if it works or not please leave a comment.

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    528 Responses to “ “How To Get Atheros AR242x To Work on 8.10 Intrepid Ibex”

    1. Brad says:
      January 26, 2011 at 10:59 am

      This worked perfectly with Ubuntu 10.10 on my HP dv7 1264nr. Thanks!

    2. krie says:
      September 16, 2010 at 3:57 am

      My Atheros AR242x 802.11abg work well in karmic…
      after fresh install Lucid,wireless completely gone

      lspci shown nothing bout atheros…

      lspci | grep Atheros == nothing..

      laptop model presario F762au…

      any advice??? thanks!

    3. Florin says:
      September 13, 2010 at 7:37 am

      I finally solved the network on my Toshiba NB250 netbook. I reinstalled Linux Mint 9, this time I used LXDE. It worked right of of the box, no adjustments needed. The one that didn’t work was Gnome 32 bit build.
      Thank you for yor help, now I am less afraid of Linux.

    4. Florin says:
      July 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

      @[mad]Berry, I replied to the wrong user.
      I don’t know what command to issue to display the wireless card info, but from booting up in Win 7 I know it has an Atheros AR9285 card. Does this thread apply to my card? Any patch for this one? Thank you.

    5. Florin says:
      July 29, 2010 at 10:24 am

      @Florin, I don’t know what command to issue to display the wireless card info, but from booting up in Win 7 I know it has an Atheros AR9285 card. Does this thread apply to my card? Any patch for this one? Thank you.

    6. Florin says:
      July 23, 2010 at 12:04 pm

      @[mad]Berry, Sorry for late reply, I selected to get a message when there is a reply and I didn’t get it. Here is the output
      mint@mini ~ $ lspci | grep Ethernet
      09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

    7. Florin says:
      July 21, 2010 at 7:43 am

      I have a Toshiba NB205 netbook, dual boot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint 9. Everything OK in Win7, but I cannot enable wireless on Mint 9. I tried to load Windows driver, with inf file, it found the hardware, LED is on, but in Network Manager I don’t have wireless option. I removed Windows driver, LED still ON.
      In Hardware Drivers utility is nothing, “No proprietary drivers are in use”
      I followed your instructions, it didn’t work. I am new to Linux, don’t know what the steps were supposed to do, but I followed the one by one. The file I used is
      compat-wireless-2010-07-20.tar.bz2
      Here is the info from terminal from running the command you specified:

      mint@mini ~ $ uname -a
      Linux mini 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
      mint@mini ~ $ cat /etc/issue
      Linux Mint 9 Isadora \n \lmint@mini ~ $ iwconfig
      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      mint@mini ~ $ iwlist wlan0 scanning
      wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

      I also run the command to load on boot
      mint@mini ~ $ echo ath5k | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
      [sudo] password for mint:
      ath5k

      Thank you.

    8. Melvin says:
      June 9, 2010 at 1:04 pm

      This worked nicely! thanks man!

    9. Pengio says:
      February 9, 2010 at 4:53 am

      Words cannot express my gratitude… This worked beautifully the first time through. Thank you very much!

    10. Likun says:
      November 29, 2009 at 5:01 pm

      The method is not totally work for compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc7.tar.bz2 and kernel 2.6.27-11-generic. It seem this is there are some misconfig in compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc7.tar.bz2.

      You can get though by this way (at least this works for my ThinkPad T400 with ubuntu 8.10). After make install and make unload, before make load, here is what you have to do:

      cd /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/updates
      sudo mv net/mac80211/mac80211.ko net/mac80211/mac80211-bak.ko
      sudo cp lbm_cw-cfg80211.ko net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
      sudo mv net/wireless/cfg80211.ko net/wireless/cfg80211-bak.ko
      sudo cp lbm_cw-mac80211.ko net/wireless/cfg80211.ko

      For those cases that not works, Hope this will help.

    11. NeptuneUK says:
      November 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

      [mad]Berry you are the man!!!!!

      Had tried everything else without luch, was about to give up and then found your info.

      Followed the tutorial and hey presto! working wireless……..

      Thanks very much.

    12. Rebroad says:
      October 26, 2009 at 8:23 am

      Thanks! This worked!

      Well, I had to deviate slightly. For example, I had two tar files, and when untarred they gave two different directories. As the cd command can take only one argument, your cd compat-wireless-* command fails. I ended up deleting the older version, and just using the newer one, and it seemed to work.

      ath5k needs adding to /etc/modules BEFORE the reboot you mention, also.

    13. victor says:
      October 22, 2009 at 4:37 am

      Thank you soooo much!

      It was easy to follow and efficient.
      It worked fine on my FS V6505 with Ubuntu 9.04.

      God bless you!

    14. Ivica says:
      September 28, 2009 at 10:38 am

      uname -a:
      Linux ivica-laptop 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 31 13:01:41 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

      cat /etc/issue:
      Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l

      iwconfig:
      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      pan0 no wireless extensions.

      iwlist wlan0 scanning:
      wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

    15. Alivallo says:
      September 10, 2009 at 11:46 am

      http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6

      this method worked for me…..I tried all the above methods also without luck.

      short story: my ATI radeon Xpress will not use openGL in ubuntu 9.04
      solution: went back to 8.10…and used the ‘unsupported’ proprietary FGLRX driver

      NEW Problem!!:
      8.10 will not work with my atheros wireless card.
      solution:
      tried everything from. NDIS wrapper, MadWifi, proprietary drivers. arrrrhhhhhhggghhh.
      short of getting a USB wireless card and using that instead of by built-in card.

      Real Solution:
      follow the steps above in this article!

      Thank you SOOOOOO much MadBerry!!!!!
      Been learning with many different linux distros since ubuntu 7.10 caught my with Beryl, emerald and compiz. and due to the frustration and many lonely weekends wasted of so many incompatibilities over the years I was ready to give it up and stay with XPsp3 or Windows 7. But you save the day.

    16. joemar says:
      September 9, 2009 at 2:06 am

      Hello good day. Is there any possible solution that you can tell me to work with ubuntu jaunty im able to get it work but when my computer shutsdown it return to the same problem ang i have to follow the same command above. Thanks in advance

    17. Aaron Moore says:
      August 24, 2009 at 6:59 am

      Hello madberry,

      I get the same as this iwlist scanning below (pasted from above)…

      What’s going on with the IE: Unknown? If I turn on encryption I get 1 line in the middle of the IEs unknown, showing my encryption, but still no association with the AP

      I suspect wireless N compatibity with the Ath5k.. Do we know if the ath5k works with wireless N routers??? Wireless N is supposed to be backwards compatible….

      How many people on these forums have wireless N routers???

      Any advice welcomed

      many thanks

      Aaron

      http://paste.ubuntu.com/283418/

    18. Flavio says:
      August 24, 2009 at 6:27 am

      Thanks, It worked just fine for me.
      My Atheros card , kernel version and distro are the following:
      01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
      Linux MSI-preview 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 17:21:41 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
      Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

    19. Michael Carpenter says:
      August 17, 2009 at 6:50 am

      I couldn’t get this working.
      http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/254554/

      I’ll admit that I haven’t read through all the comments and I’ll try doing that next, but if you have any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

      Thanks.

    20. tatersalid says:
      July 16, 2009 at 10:00 pm

      Hey… sorry i cant tell you exactly wqhats going on… but i did everything as instructed… and according to waht you said was working mine is… however, i cant yet seem to get it to properly function… if you can let me know… about any way to get it going… id be more than appreciative

    21. tm says:
      July 11, 2009 at 7:37 am

      HI great tutorial i am stuck @

      iwconfig:

      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

      wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”"
      Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
      Tx-Power=20 dBm
      Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
      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

      vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

      …

      My mobile device won’t recognize wifi.

      m using jaunty 64bit btw thanks in advance

    22. Cinabro says:
      July 6, 2009 at 1:39 am

      Hello.
      Sorry but i’ve tried everything and i think at the moment i mess everything… try your instruction but no way…
      here the oputput:

      uname -a
      Linux dalek 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

      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
      Encryption key:off
      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

      pan0 no wireless extensions.

      iwlist wlan0 scanning
      wlan0 no scan result

      lspci
      08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 04)

      dmesg | grep wlan0
      [ 12.937699] wlan0: ethernet device 00:22:5f:41:8b:e7 using serialized NDIS driver: net5211, version: 0×50003, NDIS version: 0×501, vendor: ‘NDIS Network Adapter’, 168C:001C.5.conf
      [ 12.943177] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
      [ 90.253453] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

      Ubuntu Jackalope 9 on Amilo Pa 3515

      thank in advance….

    23. anaf says:
      June 22, 2009 at 2:59 pm

      hello, I’m french and I tried your solution decribe upper.
      iwconfig says : eth0 no wireless extensions.

      wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

      wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”"
      Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
      Tx-Power=20 dBm
      Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
      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

      pan0 no wireless extensions.

      wicd tells me there is no wireless available. I don’t understand what’s wrong with it ? Could you please give me some advice. Moreover there were no pb during the install of your procedure.
      Thx for your answer,
      Anaf

    24. Grant Hook says:
      June 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm

      I’m getting very frustrated with this! Thought transition to Linux would be easy, but what do I know? :S
      Anyway, got a Compal JHL90 with Atheros AR242x. The wireless card appears to work in that Ubuntu recognises it, I have a wlan0 device listed, network manager shows all the wireless networks I can connect to, but when I select my home network, it spends a while attempting to connect and then stops, and says ‘Disconnected’ in the top right.
      Any help would be much appreciated

    25. joe kohler says:
      June 8, 2009 at 6:25 am

      Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
      Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

      wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”USR8054″
      Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
      Tx-Power=20 dBm
      Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
      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

      wlan0 Scan completed :
      Cell 01 – Address: 00:14:6C:1F:86:52
      ESSID:”NETGEAR”
      Mode:Master
      Channel:11
      Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
      Quality=93/100 Signal level:-43 dBm Noise level=-103 dBm
      Encryption key:on
      IE: Unknown: 00074E455447454152
      IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
      IE: Unknown: 03010B
      IE: Unknown: 2A0100
      IE: Unknown: 2F0100
      IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
      IE: Unknown: DD06001018020000
      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
      24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
      12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
      Extra:tsf=00000028ff4b5188
      Extra: Last beacon: 5512ms ago
      Cell 02 – Address: 00:C0:49:E3:62:94
      ESSID:”USR8054″
      Mode:Master
      Channel:11
      Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
      Quality=10/100 Signal level:-96 dBm Noise level=-103 dBm
      Encryption key:off
      IE: Unknown: 000755535238303534
      IE: Unknown: 010582848B962C
      IE: Unknown: 03010B
      IE: Unknown: 2A0100
      IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
      IE: Unknown: DD0A0800280101000200FF0F
      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
      6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
      36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
      Extra:tsf=0000005ffdf34121
      Extra: Last beacon: 32ms ago

    26. peleng says:
      June 3, 2009 at 8:01 am

      Have never had WiFi problem until this very morning. After waking up from suspend wireless failed to catch the network while the Atheros was up and running. To solve the problem I’ve tried nothing but cutting off power completely for a couple of hours and booting machine up then. Run U904 on Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo V6535 with all default settings as single boot OS via D-Link DSL 2640. Very strange.

    27. traveldan30 says:
      May 30, 2009 at 12:19 pm

      Thanks for your support, it took me quite a while to get this to work, even under Fedora 9, where the wireless was very unstable. I have recently installed ubuntu 8.10, and followed the instructions on this site. The only thing was that I had associate the driver to the access point using wpa_passphrase. this was the final step for me.

      now every time I reboot i have to run sudo modprobe ath5k, after a few seconds I am asked for a keyring password. Then it connects. This is fine. I will see if I can get this automated. The module is listed in the /etc/modules file.

      Thanks again for the help.

      traveldan30

      I have the Compaq Persario C700 and Ubuntu 8.10

    28. Kevin Berridge says:
      May 26, 2009 at 3:44 am

      I was all but ready to give up on Linux and go back to XP after only having my ASUS 1000HA for a week and going through dozens of flawed fixes for this problem so itame as somewhat of a shock to find a solution to the problem – thank you very much!

      Only issue I had was with the untar line, which kept coming up with a can’t find error but I ended up moving the folder from the desktop to the home directory and then pointing tar at it.

      Once again thanks very much.

    29. Mrawco says:
      May 25, 2009 at 9:41 am

      Can you help me pls?
      I am from Slovakia, so my english is not so good.

      I have Ubuntu 9.04 and am a newbie in Linux…. my wireless Lan adpter isnt working. I tried your way of getting it started but it isnt still working.

      My wifi LED isnt still on and my Bluetooth LED IS STILL on.

      http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/180547/

      thanks

    30. hallve says:
      May 25, 2009 at 3:50 am

      hiii..
      i have a question
      how do i get my linux-restricted-module that was removed by your tutorial
      i earlier found that altought my atheros work , but i can’t use broadcom driver that use wl driver .since i use live usb persistence and had 2 laptop with diferent driver, i wanna make my live usb work with all laptop
      thanks

    31. Bagus Ashariyanto says:
      May 21, 2009 at 6:05 am

      It’s work but when I restartnya I always do
      “sudo make load” when i need the wireless.
      What can i do to solve that?
      thanks

    32. dBuster says:
      May 10, 2009 at 3:15 am

      Check this out, the latest kernel update and my wifi LED sprung to life!?! I was shocked as I had the settings in the sysctl.conf for a while now. The only thing though it blinks on activity and I would rather have it lit up when connected not just blink on activity. Any ideas? I am using the :

      # Enable WiFi LED
      dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
      dev.wifi0.softled=1

      I believe it might have something to do with the softled but I am not sure what setting it should be as I tried one number either way and it does the same thing… Or is there another line I need? Would you have an idea?

    33. ROGER says:
      May 6, 2009 at 7:11 am

      It worked!!!! Thank you very much!

    34. Micah Mathai says:
      May 4, 2009 at 2:28 pm

      Your a Genius! Thank you soo much, ive been trying to get wireless on linux to work for so long. Im new to linux, i tried several diff distros … opensuse, mandriva, fedora, ubuntu, and linux mint.. and none of them would get my wireless working correctly,, thinking it was the Distros fault.

      i tried this information you supplied on the last installed Distro.. Linux Mint 6.
      It worked flawlessly!
      Thank you soo much!

    35. Ryan says:
      May 3, 2009 at 3:34 pm

      I am getting this error when I attempt to to run make install:

      Disabling ath_pci …mv: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic//lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile/ath_pci.ko’: No such file or directory

      Then that just repeats forever until I stop the process.

      Any ideas?

      • David Bentham says:
        May 10, 2009 at 3:08 am

        Had the same problem, you need to edit the compat-wireless-2009-05-08/scripts/modlib.sh

        Change the following mv -f /lib/modules/$VER/$CHECK /lib/modules/$VER/${CHECK}${IGNORE_SUFFIX}

        to

        mv -f $CHECK ${CHECK}${IGNORE_SUFFIX}

        Hope this helps?

        @Ryan,

    36. Roman Le Négrate says:
      May 2, 2009 at 8:50 am

      Worked like a charm on a Toshiba Satellite L350-188 laptop (bought in France) running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

      Output of `lspci | grep Ath`: “03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)”.

      Thanks a lot for this guide!

      Regards,
      - Roman

    37. Maja Djordjevic says:
      May 1, 2009 at 7:19 pm

      After a few days of google-ing, forum browsing, hair plucking, screaming, I almost gave up and made peace I’ll be using windows for surfing. But, your directions worked!!!! I also had to unload asus-laptop module, then flip the wireless switch, and then the led started working, and the scanning followed!!
      Hope this will work on reboot :)
      Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

    38. Johnny Hu says:
      April 27, 2009 at 1:30 pm

      Oh, sorry! Forgot to say: The madwifi driver is still installed and active on Jaunty in System>Admin>Hardware Drivers.

    39. Johnny Hu says:
      April 27, 2009 at 1:21 pm

      Dear MadBarry, thank you very much for you magistral work.

      My Atheros AR242x 802.11abg had worked on Intrepid just because you teach us how to do it.

      Now that I upgraded to the Jaunty Released, the Atheros that used to work, stopped.

      So far as I understood from the comments above, for those who have upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty there is no other way than to make a clean install of Jaunty (and loose all the programs that used to work on Intrepid, re-installing them again after the Jaunty clean install).

      Is this assumption right ? (hope I was wrong).

      Thanks in advance!

    40. Alan says:
      April 26, 2009 at 9:17 pm

      No, I used; http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-04-20.tar.bz2. Otherwise, I get an error after the untar command when using; http://madberry.org/wp-content/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2.

    41. Alan says:
      April 26, 2009 at 8:45 pm

      Hello, it did not work for me. Is there anything you can do to help? I just installed Ubuntu a week ago, my first Linux experience. Here are my results from the commands requested:

      alan@alan-laptop:~$ lspci | grep Atheros
      06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
      alan@alan-laptop:~$ uname -a
      Linux alan-laptop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:57:48 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
      alan@alan-laptop:~$ cat /etc/issue
      Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l

      alan@alan-laptop:~$ iwconfig
      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      pan0 no wireless extensions.

      alan@alan-laptop:~$ iwlist wlan0 scanning
      wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

    42. hosoka says:
      April 26, 2009 at 11:23 am

      Hello,

      Getting this output from upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 but can’t see any signals. What went wrong ?

      hosoka@hosoka-laptop:~$ uname -a
      Linux hosoka-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
      hosoka@hosoka-laptop:~$ cat /etc/issue
      Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

      hosoka@hosoka-laptop:~$ iwconfig
      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

      wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”"
      Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
      Tx-Power=20 dBm
      Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
      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

      hosoka@hosoka-laptop:~$ iwlist wlan0 scanning
      wlan0 No scan results

      hosoka@hosoka-laptop:~$

    43. dBuster says:
      April 26, 2009 at 4:28 am

      @[mad]Berry – Not sure why my first attempt to reply didn’t take… hmmf

      I do agree if it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it. I can live with the color red/orange… Just would be nice for the wife to know if it is on or off…

      So the ath5k driver is a madwifi driver? Or are they writing it? If so I will wait and see if there is anything in the future to help trigger the LEDs…

      • [mad]Berry         says:
        April 26, 2009 at 9:08 pm

        @dBuster,

        Your first comment ended up in the spam bin…lol

        [mad]Berry

        • dBuster says:
          April 27, 2009 at 7:21 am

          @[mad]Berry,

          Okay wake up this morning and my wifi was dead… After opening a terminal window I realized I had ran something about restricted back port something or another, I am at work and can not remember now… Needless to say I tried following the steps here to get the wireless back working again and I was getting all kinds of errors so I went back to the instructions I initially had run…

          http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=816780

          That got my wifi back!!! But in doing so I realized it was the madwifi I am running not the ath5k or so I am being led to believe… So why in the world won’t my LED change for me… hmmf, I am done trying anything since it is working again.

    44. Alejandro says:
      April 25, 2009 at 11:21 am

      HI, i can’t make it work on my laptop f755la

      $ uname -a
      Linux Rocko-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
      $ cat /etc/issue
      Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

      $ iwconfig
      lo no wireless extensions.

      eth0 no wireless extensions.

      pan0 no wireless extensions.

      $ iwlist wlan0 scanning
      wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

      some help? I had upgraded from ubutu 8.10

      • [mad]Berry         says:
        April 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm

        You will probably have to do a clean install in order for you to be able to use the new driver that comes with Jaunty. I can confirm that the driver works out of the box on a clean install of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04…

        [mad]Berry

        • hosoka says:
          April 27, 2009 at 3:34 am

          @[mad]Berry,

          Hello Berry,

          I remember that after upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 I did iwconfig command.
          But I can see that there are no signals found in this command and also can’t see any on the network listed.

          Not pretty sure if in Jaunty it works out of the box.

          Posted previously that from 8.10 upgrade to 9.04 beta it worked fine. But now with the final release no wireless still.

          Looking forward to your reply. Stil stuck now on the 8.10 now which I did a clean install and with your reference how to make wifi works, but no info in the iwconfig command (also no signals).

    45. dBuster says:
      April 25, 2009 at 5:33 am

      What a tutorial or informational page! WOW! Lots of reading there….

      First off this may be just my wanting and not needing or needing but wanting. However I have a Compaq CQ60-215 and I noticed the other posts. I was only able to get Jaunty 64bit to load back when it was in its Alpha state and have been running that since. I have no issues with the wifi and the atheros card connecting which is amazing reading all the other problems, but what I am looking for is a way to have the wifi button change the colors as it did when I would go into Vista. I have tried all the tricks I could find however they were all for the mad-wifi driver and I am using the ATH5k driver… So they did not work for me.

      I uploaded my dmesg if you could take a look and see if you could assist in getting the LED to work??? Much appreciated!

      Oh an I have bluetooth working as well as the wifi on each and every boot which seems to be an issue for some…

      http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/157920/

      • [mad]Berry         says:
        April 25, 2009 at 4:03 pm

        I have heard of the LED problems. However I have never had any problems with LED’s not working. It sounds to me as a driver problem. I just installed Jaunty on a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop and the LED started working right out of the box. I don’t see any issue in the dmesg that could be causing this. Unless someone is willing to buy me a Compaq CQ60-215 so I can diagnose and fix this I can’t solve this problem. Sorry.

        [mad]Berry

        • dBuster says:
          April 25, 2009 at 4:43 pm

          Do you think if I were to follow the instructions here to install the driver that it may just fix what is ailing me? I would hate to reinstall fresh with how much I have now loaded…

          Or would there be another way to refresh the driver and get it reloaded correctly… ??

          • [mad]Berry             says:
            April 25, 2009 at 8:05 pm

            @dBuster,

            As I understand you don’t really have a problem apart from the LED not working…If it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it. The LED problem will be solved over time by the madwifi team. Just sit back and wait…

            [mad]Berry

    46. slew says:
      April 22, 2009 at 9:33 pm

      No good with an HP dv5. Pasted the dmesg. Willing to do anything to make this work.

      Thanks.

    47. SumDumGuy says:
      April 21, 2009 at 10:56 pm

      Followed the directions and it worked perfectly on my Acer Aspire 5520

      Thank you very much!!

    48. Rodolfo Ferreira says:
      April 21, 2009 at 12:41 pm

      I did everything mentioned on this article…I’m running Ubuntu 9.04 RC Jaunty and the madwifi driver really sucks. I don’t know what else to do..Thing is, it doesn’t work at all.
      Here is the pastebin http://paste.ubuntu.com/155546/ for those who wants to know what I did.

      One more thing, the madwifi driver that was listed on Ubuntu’s hardware drivers is not listed anymore. I mean, after I followed the instructions of this article.

      Please somebody help!!!

    49. juan says:
      April 21, 2009 at 10:05 am

      hey men por fin akbas de lograr que me funcione la wlan gracias muchas gracias

    50. iconzero36 says:
      April 19, 2009 at 10:33 am

      the wifi works, but very slow!. I get full wifi bars but pages load very slow or not at all. Ive been to multiple sites for solutions. I am also new to linux.

      i am working with a asus eee pc 1000. i installed ubuntu 8.10. i have added the custom eee pc kernels as well.

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