BadBowtie03

Hey everyone, I am having trouble with my wireless in ubuntu and I cant figure it out. I read a guide somewhere and it told me to type in commands... so i did. So, is someone willing to let me send them a word file that contains a few terminal commands? the text is too long to post here in the forums. Is there some site that i can host it on? Thanks for the help!

MikeTbob

You should be able to post them as attachments here on this forum, or you could use a pastebin service
pastebin - collaborative debugging tool

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BadBowtie03

Thanks! I posted the information here:

pastebin - collaborative debugging tool

Can anyone tell me whats wrong with my setup? thanks alot!

BadBowtie03

Oh and I have a 11 b/g Wireless LAN mini pci express adapter III. Anyone?

waterhead

The correct command is this:
This is needed to determine the type of wireless it is. Unless it is an internal/external USB, then use this command;
If unsure, list the output of both commands.

I see that you have NDISwrapper installed. You must have done this manually, as it won't happen by accident. Did you follow a guide for this? Please post a link to it, so I can tell exactly what you did to your system. NDISwrapper is fne, if you need to use it. Chances are that there is a native Linux driver already for this card.

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BadBowtie03

Hey waterhead thanks for the help! I posted this info somewhere else the other day and someone said that I have the "chipset AR242x -- need ath5k driver which is in the backports repository."

But I have NO idea how to activate the driver. What is the backports repository? thanks again!

lspci -nn
00:00.0 "Host bridge [0600]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [2a40]" -r07 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20e0]"
00:01.0 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port [2a41]" -r07 "" ""
00:03.0 "Communication controller [0780]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller [2a44]" -r07 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20e6]"
00:03.2 "IDE interface [0101]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller [2a46]" -r07 -p85 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20ea]"
00:03.3 "Serial controller [0700]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection [2a47]" -r07 -p02 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20ec]"
00:19.0 "Ethernet controller [0200]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [10f5]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20ee]"
00:1a.0 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [2937]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1a.1 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [2938]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1a.2 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [2939]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1a.7 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [293c]" -r03 -p20 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f1]"
00:1b.0 "Audio device [0403]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [293e]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f2]"
00:1c.0 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [2940]" -r03 "" ""
00:1c.1 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [2942]" -r03 "" ""
00:1c.3 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [2946]" -r03 "" ""
00:1c.4 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [2948]" -r03 "" ""
00:1d.0 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [2934]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1d.1 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [2935]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1d.2 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [2936]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f0]"
00:1d.7 "USB Controller [0c03]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [293a]" -r03 -p20 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f1]"
00:1e.0 "PCI bridge [0604]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [2448]" -r93 -p01 "" ""
00:1f.0 "ISA bridge [0601]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller [2917]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f5]"
00:1f.2 "SATA controller [0106]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [2929]" -r03 -p01 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f8]"
00:1f.3 "SMBus [0c05]" "Intel Corporation [8086]" "82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [2930]" -r03 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20f9]"
01:00.0 "VGA compatible controller [0300]" "ATI Technologies Inc [1002]" "Mobility Radeon HD 3650 [9591]" "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [2117]"
03:00.0 "Ethernet controller [0200]" "Atheros Communications Inc. [168c]" "AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [001c]" -r01 "Atheros Communications Inc. [168c]" "Device [0035]"
15:00.0 "CardBus bridge [0607]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "RL5c476 II [0476]" -rba "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20c6]"
15:00.1 "FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [0832]" -r04 -p10 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20c7]"
15:00.2 "SD Host controller [0805]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [0822]" -r21 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20c8]"
15:00.3 "System peripheral [0880]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "R5C843 MMC Host Controller [0843]" -rff -pff "" ""
15:00.4 "System peripheral [0880]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [0592]" -r11 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20ca]"
15:00.5 "System peripheral [0880]" "Ricoh Co Ltd [1180]" "xD-Picture Card Controller [0852]" -r11 "Lenovo [17aa]" "Device [20cb]"

waterhead

Yes, this is the wireless card.
And it is indeed supported by the ath5k driver. It should be loading the ath5k driver automatically, but instead I see the ndiswrapper module loading.

NDISwrapper is not automatically installed, so you must have installed it. You normally have to blacklist the native Linux driver, in order to use NDISwrapper. Did you blacklist the ath5k driver?

You can manually unload the ndiswrapper module, and then load the ath5k module.
If it doesn't return with an error, check for the ath5k module in the output of lsmod. Also make sure that the ndiswrapper module is not present. Now try to setup and use the wireless.

I understand that the ath5k driver has been disabled by Ubuntu (another reason to use Fedora!). I found this statement here:
So it does seem that you need the backports repository for this. Here is some info on how to enable it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports


You can also manually install it using the compat-wireless package. This will give you the latest version of the driver. That may be important, because this is a new driver and still under developement.

Download - Linux Wireless

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