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driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:51 am
by the_punisher
I have the atheros AR5007EG Wireless card in my Fujitsu Siemens V5535 notebook. Linuxmint does not recognize it.
I have found that people on ubuntuforums have managed to get this to work in ubuntu. since linuxmint is based on ubuntu it should also be able to support it.
I have linuxmint 5.
an any1 plz help me install the wireless driver.
Im also a noob at linux so a little help would be appreciated
Re: driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:56 am
by the_punisher
thx for the reply kirsch92
so what ur saying is that all i should do is open the terminal and write :
and it should start working??
I chose to just disable the HAL and Atheros support under the restricted drivers manager
also i cannot find this option for HAL drivers, so i cant disable them.. what does HAL stand for anyways?
Re: driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:21 pm
by the_punisher
here is the result of lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
00:1f.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Re: driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:08 am
by the_punisher
thanks a lot krisch92, it works perfectly now
my mint is finally online
but from the guide i dont understand this part
Keep in mind that every time the Kernel gets updated you have to run these commands again:
sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude install build-essential
Now run:
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta
Off course in the madwifi folder. You might want to move the folder to your home folder because we’ll need it again after a Kernel update.
To get your wireless back up that is until they fix the problem in the Kernel and wireless works after restarting with the new Kernel.
Don’t be shy let us know in the comments below if the solution worked or not(in that case I can assist you and get it to work) .
i dont get it, so with every minor update i have to do this all over again??
Re: driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:32 am
by the_punisher
i couldnt make sense of the ubuntu guide so i used the other one the madberry one, it was much simpler and to the point
thanks again
Re: driver for atheros AR5007EG Wireless card??
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:48 pm
by Katzedecimal
I used the Madberry instructions to configure my husband's Atheros AR5007EG card successfully. (He then called me his Linux guru
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