AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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I have a emachines E520, and had the same problem as this guy:
http://on-being-open.blogspot.com/2008/ ... named.html

This is the relevant entry from lspci:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

I tried installing the Atheros driver according to their instructions (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDoc ... umentation), which supposedly works with Ubuntu, as well as a couple other solutions on Ubuntu forums, but nothing worked until I saw his post. (The regular windows drivers for this machine didn't work - it showed the hardware being present, but nothing showed up on iwconfig, etc.)
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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Er, specifically, his solution was to use the Windows driver from http://download2.dvd-driver.cz/atheros/ ... 0.3.85.zip with Windows Wireless Drivers. I'd rather not use drivers from some random website on a non-test system, though...
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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What I did was download and compile the latest source code snapshot from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org.

you will need to install the following packages to be able to compile the madwifi source:

libc6-dev
libc6
linux-libc-dev

After installing the above packages, compile madwifi:

tar xvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r20081105.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r20081105
make
sudo make install
sudo echo "ath_pci" >> /etc/modules
sudo modprobe ath_pci

The madwifi driver will have to be recompiled after kernel upgrades.
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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RSimpson wrote:I have a emachines E520, and had the same problem as this guy:
http://on-being-open.blogspot.com/2008/ ... named.html

This is the relevant entry from lspci:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

I tried installing the Atheros driver according to their instructions (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDoc ... umentation), which supposedly works with Ubuntu, as well as a couple other solutions on Ubuntu forums, but nothing worked until I saw his post. (The regular windows drivers for this machine didn't work - it showed the hardware being present, but nothing showed up on iwconfig, etc.)
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 49&t=18566
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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Yeah, I tried that, but it didn't work. It compiled, and loaded a driver, but no wireless. Completely blank on iwconfig, etc.

Current lspci:

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Device 0428
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at 54600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper
Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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i see a conflict. why do i see a ndiswrapper driver loaded there and you are suppose to use madwifi? :shock:
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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As I said, I tried to use madwifi. The driver loaded but nothing happened, even after rebooting, etc. I'm currently using the different solution at the top, with ndiswrapper (aka the Windows Wireless Drivers tool) and a driver off some random internet site.
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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ahh isee well if you had any chance of reinstalling your mint if youre gona configure youre wireless again just give the madwifi tut i made cause i have a hunch that your ndiswrapper and madwifi isnt going along with each other
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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Do people have the same problem with madwifi on 6.0? I haven't bothered trying it, myself. Apparently, www.atheros.cz is a pretty reputable site, and Atheros doesn't provide drivers for download on their site. :evil: :evil: :evil: I figured I'd buy a cheap laptop with their wireless in it because of making things open source, but the open source driver doesn't work on my machine. :roll: From now on, I'm only buying Intel.

I still don't know why the newer drivers won't work.
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Re: AR242x with 6.0 RC1

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Huh. I went and did the madwifi setup (as outlined in post #3) using 6.0 and the latest madwifi driver and it worked! :D
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