[SOLVED] Build Esstential Error for Madwifi

[RhysGM]

Hello Newbie here, I've spent the last week when I first installed kubuntu trying to get wifi working. I've tried to install Madwifi and then the ndiswrapper. Now I'm going back to Madwifi. I'm using this guide

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...AR242x+madwifi

The wifi card is: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
Laptop is: Toshiba Satellite A205-S5825

After I run the first step (sudo apt-get install build-essential) I get this message;

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essentialDoes this mean it's failed hence why I couldn't install it first time around.

I then tried sudo apt-get install and then retried and still got the same result.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

[RhysGM]

Re: Build Esstential Error for Madwifi

sudo aptitude update

worked.

[dibl]

Re: Build Esstential Error for Madwifi

sudo apt-get install build-essential

But, do you know about the ath5k driver? On my Asus Eee PC it works better than madwifi.

HTH

[RhysGM]

Re: Build Esstential Error for Madwifi

I have read something about that, but I also read it was still in dev and so maybe prone to issues. I thought I would just go with the tried and tested.

[dibl]

Re: [SOLVED] Build Esstential Error for Madwifi

It's OK to build the madwifi if you want.

Here's the ath5k info:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/ath5k