wifi does not work, very frustrated

[Polygon]

Ok, so to start out, this is my network card: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=422

I am running ubuntu 5.10, and the drivers for my network card can be found at the above link, under "product drivers"

first, i tried using ndiswrapper. It worked, but my connection was very unstable, it worked for like a day, then the next it refused to connect unless i went into system>administration>networking and deactivated and reactivated "wifi0" a couple of times, but it was still very unstable.

so... i googled for an answer and i came up with 'madwifi" drivers for network cards with the atheros or something chipset, which is the chipset my network card uses. So i started to follow the guide to compile and install them (http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo), but upon doing "make install" i got a bunch of "file not found errors". i searched for another solution

so i went on their mirc channel and some guy gave me their guide to installing the madwifi drivers, located here: (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=113405) so i followed the instructions there, and they installed and upon boot i was able to actually load the drivers by doing "modprobe ath_pci".

so now that i got the drivers installed, i went back to the first guide (http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo) and just started at the section titled "creating an interface". (but i skipped it at first because it said if the drivers are newer then jan something 2006, i could skip that step).

so i go to the next step,scanning for access points. I type in "modprobe wlan_scan_sta" just fine and it loads the module, but then when i go to the next part: typing "ifconfig ath0 up", it gives me the error: "ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device"

so... i have no idea what to do next... im pretty sure that i have to somehow get the device "ath0" to appear somehow, but right now all that shows up is "wlan0", any suggestions? Im also an newbie at linux, so keep that in mind when your giving me answers.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

[Hax-X]

Dude different cards but the card im using did similar stuff

if you read my post you might get something out of it that could help.

"AlexK" and i have been working bak n forth for a little bit. He's been a huge help and obviously knows what he's doing. the post is still developing were as i havent gotten all the way there yet but hes gotten me past alot of serious work i had no clue to even think about.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...lp-please.html

[AlexK]

Polygon, can you post back what these commands return after you modprobe ath_pci:

sudo iwconfig
sudo ifconfig
sudo route

[Polygon]

mark@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig
Password:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:422218 (412.3 KiB) TX bytes:422218 (412.3 KiB)

mark@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

mark@ubuntu:~$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
mark@ubuntu:~$

[AlexK]

did you execute those commands after you modprobed ath_pci?

[Polygon]

first time i forgot, then i went back, typed "modprobe ath_pci", checked to see if it was running (it was) and ran the commands again and they were the same... (which means the drivers or soemthing else is not working -.-)

[gruven]

I just installed the madwifi-ng driver, and it took all of about 2 minutes.

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian

I used that site, and module assistant. It went very smoothly. When it gets done, modprobe ath_pci, and do an update-modules. That should get it going. Then, if you use gnome or kde, you can use your gui networking module to adjust your settings, or, if you don't use one of those, you can use iwconfig.

[Polygon]

ill try your site gruven... just some questions,

should i uninstall the drivers that i already installed before trying the method on that site you provided?

and do i need to follow the steps under 'debian madwifi-ng packagages' in order to get madwifi-ng-source and madwifi-ng-tools in the next step?

also... whats an "update-modules" (im new at this so bear with me =P)

[antidrugue]

Yes, the careful way to do things would be to uninstall the old driver first.

As for "update-modules",

man update-modules

will tell you.

[gruven]

ill try your site gruven... just some questions,

should i uninstall the drivers that i already installed before trying the method on that site you provided?

and do i need to follow the steps under 'debian madwifi-ng packagages' in order to get madwifi-ng-source and madwifi-ng-tools in the next step?

also... whats an "update-modules" (im new at this so bear with me =P)

Yes, just uninstall the old drivers and then use the packages and commands for the madwifi-ng packages. You should be up and running in no time.