Comments on: How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled kernel

By: Serge Eluhu

Serge Eluhu — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:43:39 +0000

you could compile the new kernel by just typing make after finishing with the sudo menuconfig.

By: Chen Xiao-Long

Chen Xiao-Long — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:23:48 +0000

kernel_header should be changed to kernel_headers too

By: Chen Xiao-Long

Chen Xiao-Long — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:21:23 +0000

The problem is that this webpage automatically converts a double dash - - to a long dash. So change the dashes in the command to two dashes before running it

By: teco_r

teco_r — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:21:23 +0000

I;
My congratulations for the tutorial, it’s very good.
But I have a problem…
when I tape “fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=-mykernel kernel_image kernel_header”, I get this error “Error: Unknown target –initrd Unknown target –append-to-version=-mykernel Unknown target kernel_header
use --targets to display help on valid targets.”. Can someone help me with this?

thanks in advance.

By: Hep

Hep — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:49:28 +0000

@Ubiedoodie:

Get the ncurses library:
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev

By: Ubiedoodie

Ubiedoodie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:33:22 +0000

using kernel 2.6.28.15-generic while compiling but when I try
make menuconfig I get….

*** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
*** required header files.
*** ‘make menuconfig’ requires the ncurses libraries.
***
*** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
***
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

I have checked to make sure I have the libraries installed and it looks like I do, unless I need something else..

am new to Ubuntu, linux so be easy on me please.

By: Sir Eliah

Sir Eliah — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:52:20 +0000

It works for Presario f755us with the same ethernet device. I compiled kernel 2.6.30.4 and installed that compat-wireless and it seems to be ok.

There were only two problems: 1) it was necessary to type “sudo modprobe ath5k” every time after reboot, but I solved it by adding “ath5k” in file “/etc/modules”.
2) network-manager-gnome were a bit irritating constantly asking for a key to the key database or something, solved it by installing wicd.

Now wireless works excellent, thx for tutorial!

By: Debianfox

Debianfox — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:11:30 +0000

Mint, I always work with the superuser account. Just settle a password with sudo passwd root.Then you become a superuser with su after you’ve entered the password.

sudo passwd root (settle a root password)
su [enter]
cd /usr/src/linux && make clean && make mrproper

By: mint

mint — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:29:14 +0000

Any idea on why I get these errors after a make. I am struggling newbie so any advice is appreciated.

mint@mint-ubuntu:/usr/src/linux$ sudo make clean && make mrproper
CLEAN /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-13-server
CLEAN .tmp_versions
CLEAN scripts/basic
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/fixdep’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/docproc’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/hash’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/fixdep’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/docproc’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `scripts/basic/hash’: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [__clean] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic] Error 2
make: *** [_mrproper_scripts] Error 2

By: phar0z

phar0z — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:19:06 +0000

@ Bruce K: Have you tried other stuff like madwifi, ndiswrapper before you’ve read my howto?

By: Bruce K

Bruce K — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:12:45 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. I had the same problem on a Sony Viao with an Atheros driver and your instructions fixed it.

By: rolando

rolando — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:27:10 +0000

i have the same pci card on my compaq and jaunty has no problem recognizing it .but the madwifi_hal driver seems to do it better so i’m using that one.Anyway wifi still sucks on linux ath5k should resolve the problem but for now is still in early development stage and have some issues

By: jayson

jayson — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:26:42 +0000

I have an acer aspire one with the same AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

and while the wireless works with a fresh install of ubuntu jaunty, it would constantly lose the connection.

I followed the madwifi_hal instructions on:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

now my wireless works perfect.

By: phar0z

phar0z — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:34:36 +0000

You could be right. I hope more people with the same PCI card share their experience here.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:00:10 +0000

This problem may have been a side effect of upgrading thru 8.10 rather than doing a fresh installation of 9.04. I recently did a fresh install of Jaunty on a box with an Atheros PCI wi-fi card, and no wired ethernet connection. I found that the ath5k driver was installed and working from the start from the CD. On the reboot after installation, the wireless connection was just waiting for my password, and away it went. You really had to suffer for your ath5k module!