From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Espy Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:10:59 -0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Please help install on Ubuntu Jaunty In-Reply-To: <20090720154426.GD5830@mosca> References: <20090720154426.GD5830@mosca> Message-ID: <4A649713.7010507@canonical.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:31:40AM -0700, Carlos Kosloff wrote: >> *-network UNCLAIMED >> description: Ethernet controller >> product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter >> vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. >> physical id: 0 >> bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0 >> version: 01 >> width: 64 bits >> clock: 33MHz >> capabilities: bus_master cap_list >> configuration: latency=0 >> >> This is the output of lshw. >> I installed all updates of Jaunty, all codecs too (including Medibuntu). >> Installed cheese, tried with Hardware Drivers, tried ndiswrapper, no luck. >> Still no wireless. >> The bundled driver is ath5k, there is a newer driver, ath9k. >> Please explain how to install. >> I am on an Acer Aspire One, some models ship with Linux pre-installed, so there must be a way to make it work. >> Wireless works fine under Windows, I am on a dual-boot machine. >> I see that the width of the card is 64 bits, maybe I should download 64-bit codecs? >> Thanks. > > Codecs with wireless? What are you talking about? > > Anyway please read: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/ > > And beforey you do that please read thorughly: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs You also might want to checkout: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne ath5k appears to be the driver you want, not ath9k, nor ndiswrapper (evil). You really also should be working with Ubuntu support ( forums, report a bug, etc... ), and not bothering folks on a *devel* list for ath9k. Regards, /tony