Comments on: How to get Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x wireless cards (may be other models) working in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

By: Trip

Trip — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:26:49 +0000

Doesn’t work. this is what I get :

trip@trip-eMachines-E510:~$ sudo tar -jxvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

By: Rob Vergara

Rob Vergara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:47:23 +0000

Thanks a lot, works great! Madwifi dind’t allow me to connect to WEP connections available at work!

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:08:04 +0000

This worked great! Thanks so much!

By: toleteira

toleteira — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:07:15 +0000

hi!

my older comment was wrong, method 2!!!

my question is about Method 2>> step (1)

1) install linux-backport-modules

how can I install that if I cannot conect to internet my computer?

By: toleteira

toleteira — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:50:49 +0000

hi!

my answer is about Method 1>> step (1)

1) install linux-backport-modules

how can I install that if I cannot conect to internet my computer?

By: Cufflinks

Cufflinks — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:23:09 +0000

you can avoid suspend/resume issues using the workaround posted in Intrepid release notes: create a file /etc/pm/config.d/madwifi containing the single line:

By: Don Birdsall

Don Birdsall — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:12:57 +0000

I followed a procedure similar to this in October 2008 in order to get my Atheros wireless card working under Hardy. I forgot that the procedure had to be repeated after a kernel upgrade.

After upgrading to Karmic, Method 1 worked fine. However, the ath5k driver had to be added to /etc/modules in order to be recognized at start-up.

The help is greatly appreciated.

By: be1952

be1952 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:12:42 +0000

thanks for this i’ve been mucking about with madwifi for months trying to get the ar242x in my presario c700 working, tried a different google search, found your instructions and had it working in under 15minutes. method 1 worked fine, thanks.

By: Bharatan

Bharatan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:45:37 +0000

Thanks a lot. Method 1 worked for me first time

By: sonichedgehog

sonichedgehog — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:34:51 +0000

Thanks for this advice, it helped me get a solution on both Ubuntu and Debian. If having trouble, take a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/atheros-ar242-wireless-connection-almost-solved-750237/#post3657527, where I have installed both madwifi and compat-wireless. Should add that my kernel is 2.6.29- 2.6.26 ships with Debian Lenny, but a senior member on LQ suggested that it would be inadequate.

By: ericwd

ericwd — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:08:07 +0000

Whoo hoo! Been looking for a solution to this stupid atheros card all day!

Thanks a million man!

By: alvin flumix

alvin flumix — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:55:38 +0000

YOU’RE A GOD !!!!!
I spent so many hours trying to get connected
thank you so much

By: Hammer83

Hammer83 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:57:55 +0000

Thanks Mitchell,

I’ve been trying to get Ubuntu 8.10 UMPC running on my Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium but my wireless Atheros AR5007EG wireless card wasn’t functioning. Your Method #3 seems to have done the trick. Thanks so much!

By: ddreggors

ddreggors — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:44:44 +0000

I have an AR5007 (AR242x) in my Compaq CQ60-206US.

In Jaunty it pretty much worked right out of the box but was SLOWWWWWWW. I had compiled the madwifi-hal under centos5.3 (ath5k would not work in cent) on this laptop and it gave me a consistent 19Mb/s DL however with ath5k on Ubuntu on this laptop I could only get < 5Mb/s or worse. Oddly I never got madwifi to work in Jaunty.

I just read your guide and ran the command:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

and added "blacklist ath_hal" right under "balcklist ath_pci" in "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf" and rebooted.

Now I am back to the 19Mb/s download speeds, thanks!

By: twek

twek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:14:59 +0000

Thank you very much after doing all three methods, the card is finally working and registering no stupid time out and die stuff. It only took 12 hours of straight work to make this happen thank you to all that has helped. I can now drop dead and work on this stuff some more tomoro

By: RayGuy

RayGuy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:19:42 +0000

I’m sorry, I managed to get it to install the required files, but when I rebooted, the problem still remained

By: RayGuy

RayGuy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:13:29 +0000

I got stuck at the final step of the sudo make install command, it started installing and then gave me an error of “permission denied”

By: Slew

Slew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:18:22 +0000

I am now able to use WiFi with my laptop. All I did was reset the BIOS to the factory settings.

Thanks!

By: S@inT

S@inT — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:39:23 +0000

Method # 3 work like a charm, Thank You so much for this my friend..

i was unable to run the command “make unload” and the removing part, but still when i make install and reboot when i saw the connection establish icon i feel like tuns of metal is off my head…

Thanks Mitchell

By: Ambystoma

Ambystoma — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:26:23 +0000

BTW, I used method one.