Dear Sirs,

I run Mandriva 2008 PowerPack on a Acer3104 Laptop with integrated AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter.

I've downloaded madwifi-0.9.3.3.tar.gz, decompressed, did make, make install, modprobe ath_pci. Nothing helped. I still can't use my wifi.
(But when loaded mustdie drivers with ndiswrapper I can see and connect to wifi networks available.)
So I tried madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz. Followed the same procedure, but still nothing.

when typing iwconfig I get:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

for modinfo ath_pci it says:
PHP Code:
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv/net/ath_pci.ko
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
version:        svn r2756
description:    Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
author:         Errno Consulting, Sam Leffler
srcversion:     60703EF59C04C8C6859AC83
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00009013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000024sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000023sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000019sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000018sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000016sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000101Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00001014sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010B7d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000A727d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000012sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000007sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        ath_hal,wlan
vermagic:       2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv SMP mod_unload 686
parm:           countrycode:Override default country code (int)
parm:           outdoor:Enable/disable outdoor use (int)
parm:           xchanmode:Enable/disable extended channel mode (int)
parm:           rfkill:Enable/disable RFKILL capability (int)
parm:           tpc:Enable/disable per-packet transmit power control (TPC) capability (int)
parm:           autocreate:Create ath device in [sta|ap|wds|adhoc|ahdemo|monitor] mode. defaults to sta, use 'none' to disable (charp)
parm:           ratectl:Rate control algorithm [amrr|minstrel|onoe|sample], defaults to 'sample' (charp)
parm:           ath_debug:Load-time debug output enable (int) 
If somebody could help me I would be very grateful to you.
Thank you in advance.
Regards.