If you have Atheros AR5007 wireless network adapter follow this procedure to make it work in ubuntu 8.04
For i386 Users
First go to System-->Administration-->Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option
Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
Then Reboot your system.
Preparing your system
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then open the terminal from Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal and copy the following command
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
tar xfz madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot
That’s it now your wireless should work without any problem.
For AMD64 Users
If you are using 64 bit version following this procedure
Blacklist the default driver
echo “blacklist ath_pci” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Download the 64 bit driver
wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-64-0.2.tar.gz
Extract driver using the following command
tar xvf ar5007eg-*.tar.gz
tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz
Ensure you have your kernel headers and the build essential package.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
Install ndisgtk
sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
Either use ndisgtk to install the driver or
sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
Load up ndiswrapper every time Linux is loaded
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
echo “ndiswrapper” | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
Restart your system using the following command
sudo reboot
Your card should have been detected and it should show available networks but if it does not, try
sudo iwlist scan
Atheros AR5007 wireless with madwifi on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy heron)
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