Comments on: Atheros 5007EG with madwifi on i386 platform

By: OsBoNe

OsBoNe — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:00:54 +0000

Will this work with an AR5006EG?, i suppose it’ll work but i don’t want to mess up my whole system trying, so if anyone has already tried….

By: S7effen

S7effen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:22:57 +0000

Great! Thx.

By: Popeye

Popeye — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:54:06 +0000

Thanks, worked perfectly

By: r4ul

r4ul — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:41:49 +0000

This guide is great but i have a problem how do i set my card in monitor mode???
when i try to do it using iwconfig ath0 mode monitor i get an error message, do u have a solution for this?
And thanks at least i can use my wifi now!

By: Visor

Visor — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:57:51 +0000

My laptop: LG E500 S.AP52B
Atheros AR5007EG
I was searching for a solution of this problem since 2 months. It works perfectly.
Thank you very much.

By: Viktor Inferno

Viktor Inferno — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:27 +0000

Thank you SO much! I have read other guides advising me to cop out and use ndiswrapper, (which i still couldn’t get to work) This link is the only madwifi code I’ve found a link to that would work on this card (By the way this card is the Atheros ar5007 abg)

I should note that I am using PCLinuxOS 2007, not Ubuntu, but this guide worked perfect. I had to remove the madwifi-kernel and madwifi-dkms package as well as manually deleting the kernel modules generated by dkms

sudo updatedb
locate madwifi

By: Rogelio

Rogelio — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:09:14 +0000

Hi, My I have an Acer 4520 and everythin wroks perfect, but the Wireless doesn work, I dont know why :S im so confused, I’ve seeked in every foro, but anyone know what happen…. SO I have an athereos 5007EG, and I’ve installed the driver from windows whith the ndiswrapper and anything has passed, im so confused. please help….

I have Ubuntu for 64 bits

By: KwisatzHadarach

KwisatzHadarach — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:57:40 +0000

Thank you so much! Worked without a hitch! I have searched for days trying to get my acer 5570z online wirelessly. Now I can finally enjoy my Ubuntu laptop the way it was ment to be- from the easy chair!

By: alexv

alexv — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:24:37 +0000

I knew i shouldn`t have gone for the x64 flavor when i installed the OS (sidux 2007.4.5) on my notebook . The same pesky driver support over and over again . Just about everything works neatly , no wireless though . Anyway , if anyone outhere knows of some wacky workaround to get wifi up and running on a 64bit linux with 5007 , i`m bound to be forever grateful . Heck , i`d be equally grateful if i knew just how long would it take before a solution emerged for that matter . Sigh…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:53:21 +0000

So no error occured when I followed this guide, but after I rebooted I still cannot see any networks! These last two commands, are they suppose to out put anything after I enter them? They just skipped down to the next line for me, they did not give any error messages…

I am running Kubuntu 7.10 and using Knetworkmanager.

~J3ff

By: Tihomir Cvetkovic

Tihomir Cvetkovic — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:22 +0000

Also, I had two iterations with this procedure. One failed, second worked. Since linux is all about feedback, here is how it worked for me.

When I first tried to install madwifi drivers for 5007eg on acer 5520g laptop, it failed because my ath_pci modules were stil up. So, on my second try, i’ve, before everything else mentioned here,
- disabled restricted drivers (I use xubuntu with xfce so it’s Applicatons (menu)->system->restricted drivers)
- rebooted my computer
- opened restricted drivers again, they were turned on, but the green light on the right indicated that the drivers were still in use, so I
- sudo modprobe -r ath_pci -> removed modules
- folowed the procedure mentioned here, that is compiled drivers from source.
- rebooted my computer

- when i ifconfig -a, I see ath0 and wifi0
- also, when I iwlist ath0 scann , i see hotspots around me. I’m guessing thing’s work.

So I’ve decided to share this, b-kz i’ve wasted a day or two on this. World would be more eficient if i were the olny one, and the others fixed this in a couple of easy steps.

Tihomir, Croatia

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:43:33 +0000

Worked wonderfully for me too. Tried out dozens of other solutions, before this advice finally helped. Thank you!

By: will

will — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:29:29 +0000

worked like magic. I’m using Acer Aspire 5050, Dual Booting Windows Vista and Ubuntu 7.10.