HP Pavilion dv5 w/ Atheros wireless not working [SOLVED]

[CVPunk]

Ok, so I have been trying to get my wireless going on my new laptop for about a week and a half to no avail.
I have a HP Pavilion dv5 laptop with an Atheros 5007 wireless card. I've tried all kinds of different things but nothing seems to want to work for me. I tried the madwifi drivers, the ndiswrapper, tried different network managers (knetworkmanager, wicd, kwlan, etc)
It's almost like Kubuntu doesn't see my wireless card. It works great under Windoze Vista , but no go on Kubuntu. I am using Kubuntu 8.10 64bit with KDE4.2.
Another problem I seem to be running into is that there are not really any new how-to's on setting up wireless.
Any help would be appreciated. If you need me to post anything I can hook it up wired and paste back here. Thanks.

[sithlord48]

Re: wireless is giving me a headache..

hey cvpunk

here is my lshw output for my atheros card

*-network:1
        description: Wireless interface
        product: AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor
        vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
        physical id: 3
        bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
        logical name: wifi0
        version: 01
        serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (mac address)
        width: 32 bits
        clock: 33MHz
        capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci ip=10.20.51.125 latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Mine Pops up automagicly with the driver installed via a "restricted driver"

there are two parts "atheros Hal" and "support for atheros 802.11 wifi cards"

just note i am currently running 8.04(32 bit). worked just the same w/ 8.10 (32bit)
using a minipci atheros card.
what does lshw give u for info about the card?

[CVPunk]

Re: wireless is giving me a headache..

here is from my lshw...

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0

[CVPunk]

Re: wireless is giving me a headache..

ok, so I finally got it working tonight.
earlier at work I found this http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-970717.html
and followed this part of the post...

ravl
November 6th, 2008, 10:12 AM
Success!!!

I can confirm that the process I previously posted to enable Atheros wifi cards works!

System > Hardware Drivers: Disable the stock Atheros support. Something odd happened here, when I open the Hardware Driver manager from the K menu, it doesn't ask for the administrator password. I closed it, and then clicked on the tray icon for the Hardware Driver Manager, and then got prompted for the administrator password. Then I could disable the stock driver.

Reboot.

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

Reboot.

Right click NetworkManager, your wireless should be up and running.

after the reboot I had to configure my network first since I am using a hidden network with WPA2.
then, right clicked on network manager again and clicked on my network connection. All is good now.
I kind of bounce between 3 and 4 bars...but I can handle that for now.