Atheros abgn in Ubuntu?

[Paul Unger]

Is anyone using the atheros abgn in Ubuntu? I finally got it working with ndiswrapper (with a friend's help, and don't ask me what he did because I dunno!). Just wondering if anyone has some wisdom to share in this regard because I didn't have to use ndiswrapper on my T42 with the atheros abg I. I have viewed the relevant page at thinkwiki, but just wondered if there was a different solution. Not that I need it--it seems to be working--but just curious.

[icantux]

Did you try madwifi-ng to get it to work? Read somewhere that it should support the card's chipset.

[Paul Unger]

Did you try madwifi-ng to get it to work? Read somewhere that it should support the card's chipset.

Nope, didn't know there was such a thing . . . Is it in Synaptic?

[aaa]

It's the default Atheros driver I believe, that's there already.

However, see here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4256444

Apparently support was added in a recent version of the driver that isn't included in Ubuntu. Can be a pain to install, though.

[tarvoke]

you may like to try using the hardy (8.04) kernel+drivers in gutsy, so:

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echo 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install linux linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

'swhat I had to do to use newer iwl3945 module over ipw3945; I imagine it would do similar for atheros module.

[minhi]

i just installed the atheros card into my T60 and i didn't have to do anything, my first boot into gutsy the restricted-driver-manager popped up to let me know it had loaded some specific drivers for the card.

did you try looking in there to see if gutsy detects the card?

if you google, i believe it's a specific version of mad-wifi, something like ibm-restricted-wireless package.

EDIT: whoops i'm only using abg, so not sure about your problem with agbn

[wswartzendruber]

The current MadWifi release doesn't support the AR5008-based chipsets yet.

To get it working, I downloaded the current trunk release and patched them into my kernel.

I can try to help you with that if you want, although I've never done it on Ubuntu.

[Paul Unger]

I'm just about relieved by your edit. I looked in Restricted Drivers and it didn't show anything, so I was beginning to wonder just what was wrong with my installation of Gutsy! Alas, I do have the abgn card. As noted above, it is working well with ndiswrapper so at this point I'm happy and just curious if there is a 'better' solution. Thanks for your input--I'm sure it'll help someone along the way.