Hey all, I have an Acer Aspire 5720 laptop that uses an Atheros wireless card. I have had to follow another post here to get it working originally. I use the madwifi driver, install it, reboot, etc. After downloading the driver I install with these commands:
cd madwifi-*
make
sudo make install
echo ath_pci | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot
Upon reboot after installing the driver I see the ath0 in my iwconfig, and am able to connect to wireless networks fine. Also, I use Wicd to manage my wireless network.
It works fine until I have to reboot my PC. Every time I reboot the wireless driver disappears. Doing a 'iwconfig' shows:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Where I should have an ath0 for the wireless. Each time, I have to use 'make' to reinstall the driver, reboot, then it is recognized just fine.
Is there something I am missing to get this driver to be recognized each time on boot? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
cd madwifi-*
make
sudo make install
echo ath_pci | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot
Upon reboot after installing the driver I see the ath0 in my iwconfig, and am able to connect to wireless networks fine. Also, I use Wicd to manage my wireless network.
It works fine until I have to reboot my PC. Every time I reboot the wireless driver disappears. Doing a 'iwconfig' shows:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Where I should have an ath0 for the wireless. Each time, I have to use 'make' to reinstall the driver, reboot, then it is recognized just fine.
Is there something I am missing to get this driver to be recognized each time on boot? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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