HOWTO setup Atheros AR5007EG wireless on Feisty Fawn (with ndiswrapper)
Posted by admin on March 22nd, 2008 
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personally recommend using the wicd program for WiFi connectivity. It boasts built-in WPA support and has been successful where other network connection manager programs have failed.
This chipset showed up on my Acer Aspire 5050-3785. The lspci program spit out the following info:
Atheros Unknown device 001c (rev 01)
It also has been incorrectly labelled as an AR5006X device, in some cases.
Here is a step by step procedure to install the drivers manually . Open a terminal and copy/paste the following lines:
Download the ndiswrapper (v1.4 source code and AR5007EG Windows drivers:
wget http://wifix.sourceforge.net/software.php?title=ndiswrapper
Download the AR5007EG Windows XP drivers
If you’re using a 32-bit version of Linux, use this command
wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-32-0.2.tar.gz
For 64-bits of blazing WiFi glory, use this:
wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-64-0.2.tar.gz
Extract the archives:
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
Blacklist the ath_pci kernel module (it doesn’t support our chipset).
echo “blacklist ath_pci” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Compile ndiswrapper
pushd ndiswrapper-*/
sudo make uninstall
make
sudo make install
popd
Install the Windows drivers (using ndiswrapper):
pushd */ar5007eg/
sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
popd
Make sure ndiswrapper loads up every time we start Linux
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
echo “ndiswrapper” | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
Restart your computer.
sudo init 6
Credit goes to bmartin
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