I followed the instructions on Madwifi: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
After the modprobe ath_pci I checked for the ath0 or wifi0 devices, but nothing shows. Any ideas? Thanks, John On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > You may wish to check out the madwifi drivers for the atheros chipsets. > It will probably work better than ndiswrapper. If you wish to continue > to use the ndiswrapper driver, then I would consider grabbing the latest > stable release and build it by hand. > > Even though my laptop is a year and a half old, I am still considering > replacing the crappy broadcom wlan nic with something that lets me do > away with ndiswrapper. This is not to say that the project is not very > good, but it not the most stable solution, and it also does us no > favours as it mitigates the pressure that we can put on to device > manufacturers. > > http://madwifi.org/ > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ > > Hth, > > > > John Greep wrote: > | I've got this problem on two laptops, but I'll start with the first. > | > | It's an Acer Aspire 5715-4740 running Ubuntu 7.10 and windows dual > | boot. I've made the connection with windows, but when it attempts to > | connect in Ubuntu, the system freezes. > | > | I've been following the instructions on > | > > http://quilombo.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/atheros-ar5006eg-in-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/ > | > | Here's some specs. > | ~$ lspci | grep Ethernet > | 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M > | Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) > | 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG > | 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > | > | I'm using ndisgtk. > | > | ifconfig shows I've got a wlan interface: > | > | wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ... > | 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:19 Memory:54100000-54110000 > | > | Any ideas? > | > | Thanks, > | John > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHywxqwRXgH3rKGfMRAhsRAJ9MCUxt3e5Q5Oz/EOPsKTheadrDBQCaAqOZ > hAca96kny3KMGc5U0imBmNg= > =tvYw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- John Greep http://www.johngreep.com _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
