Athros AR5006X not working in Feisty <RESOLVED>

[Tuxan1]

I have followed several posts describing the installation and configuring of the MadWifi modules. Here is the status of my project to date:

1. lsmod listing -
ath_pci 97184 0
wlan 204100 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 192592 1 ath_pci

2. lspci listing -
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006X 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

3. ifconfig ath, ath0 or waln up listing - (all return the same result)
ath: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

It seems like the interface should appear in the Network manager, but only the wired ethernet devices appear.

I have seen that Feisty should recognize this card without issue, I installed the latest driver from the Madwifi site (madwifi-0.9.3.1.tar.gz), and I followed these instructions to install by (http://www.stchman.com/ath_drv.html).

Any assistance would be deeply appreciated.
TIA,
phil

[Tuxan1]

Re: Athros AR5006X not working in Feisty

I got this working doing the following:

1. DO NOT USE MADWIFI to get this working.

2. Download a Windows XP driver - atheros_V5.0.0.107_xp-whql.exe

3. I used Synaptic to install the following on the system
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
ndiswrapper-common
ndisgtk

4. From a terminal I ran - sudo -s

5. Then run ndisgtk - install the driver you expanded into a directory and then configure the card.

[bob_in_florence]

Re: Athros AR5006X not working in Feisty &lt;RESOLVED&gt;

As said in another post, I resolved this question by putting "acpi=force" option to the kernel, which has the disadvantage to disable usb ports.
Before I engage in risky operations (due to my low level of competence!), do you know which solution is better?
I downloaded the driver from here: http://list.driverguide.com/list/company2100/