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    Wireless help :(

    So i installed Kubuntu 8.04 x64 on my hp 9810us lappy and am having a hell of a time getting the wireless to work. I have a Atheros wireless card and it is recognized in hardware manager, it also says it is in use. My laptop has a wireless on off switch and even when it is turned to on I have a amber light meaning it is off. This only happens when i boot into Kubuntu my XP and Vista OS's work fine. (I am triple booting). Any ideas? Also when i run wlassistant it says no usable device found and then it turns its self off.

    P.s. I am a total linux noob any help would be great thanks!

    regulataoath
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    #2
    Re: Wireless help

    I think Kubuntu has some issues with atheros cards. Using ndiswrapper could help fix that. Try sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper and then using it with your card's windows driver may help.
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      #3
      Re: Wireless help

      I'm not so sure about Atheros and ndiswrapper. I am more used to Atheros and madwifi. Can you post the reusult of
      lspci
      so we can see what Atheros chipset we are dealing with please?
      "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles F. Kettering
      "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."--Dr. Seuss
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        #4
        Re: Wireless help

        I have also heard of people using MadWifi for Atheros chipsets.
        Their website has the howto's and other stuff that might help.
        http://madwifi.org/
        &quot;Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it&#39;s from Neptune.&quot; ~Noam Chomsky<br /><br />Gigabyte MB, AMD 64x2 6000, 2 Gigs Patriot DDR2, XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX, 400Gig WD SATA HDD &amp; 1TB WD SATA HDD.
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          #5
          Re: Wireless help

          You guys all rock for helping first off! Bad ass to help out and not talk smack just because I am a noob. Good form gents!!!

          It is a Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter.

          Hope this is what you needed.
          Also How do i get madwifi working? I have installed it and ndiswrapper and I cant figure either of them. When I run ndiswrapper from konsole I get a bunch of command formats and when I try any of them it just recycles. Man I just want to get this working!


          Ohhh p.s. I did get my display working correctly and learned how to fix the everything boots but nothing shows up error after installing compiz.

          Thanks again guys!
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            #6
            Re: Wireless help

            Hi there, I am another complete muppet and am trying to get into kubuntu, because i dont like vista but im having some issues similar to regulataoath.
            cant get wireless to work, and also cant get my video drivers sussed.

            I have a hp dv51011ea with geforce 9600m gt,
            i installed hardy heron release of kubuntu a couple of days ago.
            i dont know squat about konsole use either
            which nvidia driver do i need, and how do i get my wireless up and running.

            here are the results form lspci:

            00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
            00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
            00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
            00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
            00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
            00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
            00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
            00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
            00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
            00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
            00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
            00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
            00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
            00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
            00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
            00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
            00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
            00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
            00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
            00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
            00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
            00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
            01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0649 (rev a1)
            02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4237
            03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
            06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2380
            06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2382
            06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2381
            06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2383
            06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2384

            in vista it shows my netwrk adapters as:
            Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100
            Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)

            any other info i need let me know, any help would be much appreciated! thanks.
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              #7
              Re: Wireless help

              Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter

              64bit version

              Ndiswrapper = http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4794978 (page down to post #14)

              (There doesn't appear to be a stable madwifi for this yet)

              Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100

              Still looks like a work in progress. But look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=879134&page=7 post#62

              "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles F. Kettering
              "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."--Dr. Seuss
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