Comments on: Atheros AR5007 wireless with madwifi on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy heron)

By: compunuts

compunuts — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:27:43 +0000

Mine worked out of the box. I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 on HP G70-463CL notebook. No need to mess with Ndiswrapper stuff. I checked it with hardware drivers setting and it says I have no closed drivers. .

By: Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:31:06 +0000

http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-64-0.2.tar.gz returns 404 not found.

Any options?

Best,

Simon Taylor

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:07:35 +0000

thanks it helped me a lot

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:59:26 +0000

i wanted to share my joy with the people of this forum, and what could (possibly) be of help to some. i have an AMD64 dual-booted with vista and an atheros ar5007 adapter. i had been trying for months to get the wireless adapter to work with linux mint (gloria) and even koala. tonight i attempted a fix from this forum. i hard-wired my laptop to the internet, which forced me to go my general network settings to turn on eth0 (system > network, in mint.) in that network settings box is (at least in mint) a wireless connection “tab” which i decided to check just to see what would happen, and my wireless adapter turned on! according to my wireless network manager, i am not connected, and my wireless adapter light is still orange, but i am connected. if ubuntu has a similar general network property, perhaps it will work for some.

By: Belenos

Belenos — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:24:11 +0000

yes there is a new mirror and homepage:

http://madwifi-project.org/

By: totanlinh

totanlinh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:27:05 +0000

try this, it works for me as the madwifi was obsoleted

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/compat-wireless-old

By: tutatis

tutatis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:07:49 +0000

madwifi seems to have been down for quite some time now. any help on other ways to make AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) work on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)? Thanks for the help.

By: DJKMan

DJKMan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:29:09 +0000

http://madwifi.org appears to have moved the tar file so some of us cannot continue without the file. Anyone know of a mirror?

By: newUbuntuUser

newUbuntuUser — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:13:10 +0000

how do I figure out which download to use for approach as ones suggested here do not exist:
from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/

By: Malek

Malek — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:27:21 +0000

http://snapshots.madwifi.org/
is down!!!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:15:26 +0000

Very good link. The step 33 worked for my HP dv5 laptop. but still i see orange light. is there any chance to make it blue

By: JOJO

JOJO — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:20:56 +0000

Thank you very much..Bookmarked!!!!

By: Frank Hill

Frank Hill — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:48:14 +0000

I got tired of having to go through this procedure every time Ubuntu did a kernel version update. I wrote a short script which I named redo-wifi. I put it in my home directory and made it executable via
sudo chmod 700 redo-wifi

Now, when I do a kernel patch from my regular updates to Ubuntu 8.04, and my wifi stops working, I just open a terminal window and type:
sudo ./redo-wifi

Below is the text of this simple script. It’s saved me a lot of frustration and I hope it helps someone else.

#!/bin/bash
# This script is to re-define the Atheros wifi driver after a kernel update in Ubuntu.
# it is run as sudo redo_wifi
#
# based on http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-ar5007-wireless-with-madwifi-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html
rmmod ath_pci
rmmod ath_hal
rmmod wifi

# please substitute the correct path to where you put the madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
cd /home/fwhill/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007

make
make install
modprobe ath_pci
reboot

#end

All the best,
Frank Hill

By: Allfo

Allfo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:17:05 +0000

hi Rob,

you could try to put the steps in a bash script and do an update-rc.d…

Details:

1. run iwconfig ath0 list scan and/or iwlist ath0 scanning to list available AP’s

2. create script (say in your home directory) using details from the scan above
allfo@mist:~$vim ath0_up.sh sudo iwconfig ath0 ap "00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" #MAC Address of the AP you want to connect to sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "2WIRE0689" #ESSID sudo iwconfig ath0 channel 1 #channel sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 1 #WEP is using Open authentication sudo iwconfig ath0 key 1122334455 #WEP Key used by the AP for authentication sudo dhclient ath0

3. make it executable
chmod +x ath0_up.sh

4. create a symbolic link of ath0_up.sh in /etc/init.d/
sudo ln -s ~/ath0_up.sh /etc/init.d/ath0_up.sh

5. run update-rc.d to make script execute during bootup
sudo update-rc.d ath0_up.sh defaults

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:42:31 +0000

Dear Alfo,
Thank you so much! After several install and even install from Ghost the wisdows side, I am definitely closer. It works but I have to run make, make install and modprobe after each restart. It seems the script commands are not being permanently made. Any suggestions?
Rob

By: Allfo

Allfo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:07:28 +0000

1.Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3879-20081204.tar.gz from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3879-20081204.tar.gz

2. extract tarball
tar zxf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3879-20081204.tar.gz

3. change directory into the extracted package

4. make

5. make install
6. modprobe ath0_pci
7. wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
8. ifconfig ath0 up
9. modprobe wlan_scan_sta

10. Scan Wireless AP
wlanconfig ath0 list scan

11. Specify AP using its MAC
iwconfig ath0 essid “2WIRE0689″

12. Specify WEP key is open or shared.If open authmode 1;if shared authmode 2
iwpriv ath0 authmode 1

13. Enter WEP key
iwconfig ath0 key

14. Get IP address
dhclient ath0

By: Rob de Roos

Rob de Roos — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:30:06 +0000

I have the HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC with AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual-Core QL-60 1.90 GHz processor and the Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter. I have tried the Atheros AR5007 wireless with madwifi on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) but I haven’t got it to work. Any suggestions?

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:11:50 +0000

I have Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit on my HP dv9922us.

I got wireless working with help from post #124 (thanks Cyphrin).

Copied his steps almost to the letter, except

for step 3 I put “wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3879-20081204.tar.gz”

Also, I forgot to do “sudo apt-get install build-essential” before I started. Wireless didn’t work until I typed that in after I was done with the other steps.

Thanks for everyone’s help!

--Linux Newbie

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:43:49 +0000

Grrr.. *face palm* I have no access to ethernet, I have an atheron lan card. What ever am I to do?

By: tdudley

tdudley — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:51:21 +0000

I am good up to the

travis@travis-laptop:~$ tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz

at this point it says

tar: ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I followed the rest step by step, and on a clean install, but still get this error. What should I do??