Ubuntu 8.04: Enabling Atheros AR5007 Based Wireless

Ubuntu-150px Ubuntu 8.04: Enabling Atheros AR5007 Based Wireless If you have Atheros AR5007 wireless network adapter follow this procedure to make it work in ubuntu 8.04 using the latest MadWiFi drivers.

For 32-bit Users

1. First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option:

Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)

Reboot your system.

2. Preparing your system

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and copy the following command

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

tar xfz madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007

make

sudo make install

sudo modprobe ath_pci

sudo reboot

That’s it now your wireless should work without any problem.

For 64-bit Users

1. Blacklist the default driver:

echo “blacklist ath_pci” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

2. Download the 64 bit driver

wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-64-0.2.tar.gz

3. Extract driver using the following command

tar xvf ar5007eg-*.tar.gz

tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz

4. Ensure you have your kernel headers and the build essential package.

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

5. Install ndisgtk

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk

Either use ndisgtk to install the driver or

sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

6. Load up ndiswrapper every time Linux is loaded

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

echo “ndiswrapper” | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Restart your system.

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Comment by Tadas on May 11, 2008

My laptop Acer ex5220 with AR5007 and ubuntu 8.04

I did it step by step, but internet do not work. I only can see all access points, but i can not get internet…

Comment by Scott on May 17, 2008

Works perfectly on my Toshiba Satellite Pro L40 with Atheros AR5007EG. For ultra-noobs like myself, you may have to install the build-essential package to get this to work. To do this without an internet connection: Insert the Ubuntu install CD, go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. Click ‘Settings’ then ‘Repositories’, put a check next to Cdrom with Ubuntu and click close. You will also have to download the Atheros driver package on another PC from the website above and copy it to your home directory (possibly using a usb stick like I did). Then follow the steps above.

Comment by Conor on May 19, 2008

For 64 bit-
After driver is loaded and AP show up, you must add a line to /etc/network/interfaces because ndiswrapper sometimes does not assign a MAC address to your card. so
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
then add
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
after whatever else is in the file. XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is actually your MAC address which you can find by typing
ifconfig
in terminal- HWaddr is your MAC address (or mine in this case)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:b0:g1:08:70:9g
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:252 Base address:0xa000
worked for me on Toshiba sattelite pro 215 with atheros 5007 in 64 bit ubuntu 8.04

Comment by agukky on May 30, 2008

Hi, i have a asus pro50.
i try to do this procedure, and now the led of the wireless is on..but i don’t see the wireless connection in my manual connection the icon in the bar…what i have to do now??

Comment by GC on May 31, 2008

Thanks so much! I wanted to get my wife’s new Toshiba A210 up and running with Ubuntu and was momentarily flummoxed by the Atheros not working.

Again, thanks for quick fix. You saved me a lot of time, and more importantly, I avoided loss of confidence in Ubuntu by my wife, who is using Linux for the first time.

Comment by Alyssa on June 01, 2008

Sweet! I finally see something when I type iwconfig under wlan. I can’t see wireless networks at the moment, but at least it’s a new problem for me to solve. thanks a lot.

Comment by Modmadmike on June 07, 2008

I confirm that this works perfectly on my toshiba u305-s5077 32bit, but every time the kernel is updated the madwifi driver gets kicked so it needs to be recompiled, is there a fix for this or do i just have to make a shell script to run every time the driver gets kicked. This may also be a problem because my install is a wubi.

Comment by mykeecdn on June 09, 2008

This worked flawlessly for me on a Acer Extensa 5620Z.

I had screwed up my system significantly (did a fresh build) by trying the numerous other Atheros solutions out there, this one worked perfectly!

Thanks so much!

/\/\

Comment by Steeler on June 11, 2008

I have an Acer Aspire 4520 with Ubuntu 8.04, 64-bit.

I managed to get the atheros working by following the instructions above (top). But at 3. the command “tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz” came back with an error message about not finding the file. At 5. the command “sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf” also errored, but i made it by typing “sudo ndisgtk” and then manually choosing the inf file from the downloaded directory “ar5007eg-64-0.2″. I also did what Conor suggested. After rebooting i did a manual network configuration (choose it from the network icon in the panel). Then it finally worked. Hope this help someone!

Comment by War Math on June 18, 2008

In my toshiba a215-s4697 with ubuntu 8.04 64 bits, the instructions worked perfectly. Very good! Thanks. I haved to looking for this howto for a one year or more. Now my wifi is working cool. Thanks vary much.

Comment by dai_vernon on July 08, 2008

Worked for me on a Compaq Presario with a 5007 in 64 bit Hardy. I needed to add the MAC address like was said elsewhere here and the tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz line both error’d out and wasn’t necessary, but other than that, this helped alleviate days and days of grief.

Thanks!