New laptop does not show the atheros wifi card at all. When I put in a pcmcia card it is detected automatically. Can anyone help? Tried ndiswrapper and no luck with the atheros card. It worked fine for my linksys.
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Re: Atheros onboard wifi
pointers would be very welcome here too!!!
on this stupid acer laptop i must configure, lspci tells me i have an "atheros unknown".
the acer web site doesn't even list the laptop, despite it being brand new.
the sticker on the thing says: acer extensa 5200 (another sticker says: 5203WLMi)
stock drivers won't work.
ndiswrapper with windoze drivers (yak!) won't work (ndisgtk says: no hardware!).
anyone knows what's the bloody card in this crap?
meanwhile i'll try downloading the latest madwifi sources and compile it from scratch...
cheers
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Hey jankuska,
If you've had any luck with the driver, please do let me know! I just got myself an extensa 5513WLMi
Thanks
SeanComment
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no luck, sorry... >
tried everything i could think of.
hopefully, with linux becoming more and more popular, support for these devs will improve.
should you have any news, pls, post them.
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Re: Atheros onboard wifi
Nothing has worked yet for me - currently using a netgear pcmcia card to use wireless.Comment
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Re: Atheros onboard wifi
follow the ndiswrapper docs and always use the suggested driver. I have used it on all wifi cards and all worked the atheros on my acer the netgear on the office computer -- tones more never had on that didn't work.
read the steps and it will work
if it doesn't my guess is another driver is being loaded in it's sted.
try lsmod | less
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Re: Atheros onboard wifi
Hello,
On my packard bell, I got the atheros wifi card recognized by putting "acpi=force" option to kernel. This has a secondary effect: it disables usb ports! Help needed to solve this problem, please!Comment
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