[r3drock3t88]

Hey all,

I cannot get my wireless card to work on Ubuntu 8.10. As far as I know, I have an Atheros AR242X PCI Express Adapter Wireless Card.

I have looked all over for directions on how to get this working, but I am new to linux and it seems like everyone who has fixed the problem knew a bit about linux in the first place.

One person said to install madwifi and a patch, but I have absolutely no idea how to do this or where to even begin.

Could anyone please please please help me here? I really want to learn how to use linux, but I absolutely need wireless for school, otherwise I'll be forced to use vista again.

Thank you all for any responses!

[r3drock3t88]

FIXED!!!!

I found this post on another website and followed his instructions ...

"hi,

this post is for people who may have the same problem as i had.

i've a Toshiba a201 with Atheros AR5007EG (named AR5006EG in gusty) now name AR242x in hardy.

anyway, to make it work:

- disable both restricted drivers in System > Adminstration > Hardware drivers

- install ndiswrapper in the add/remove window

- download the .inf from the XP driver at : http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

- open a terminal and type this command : sudo ndisgtk

- select the net5211.inf file and "enter"

- it should now work

i hope this help."

[atkail]

Some wireless cards simply lack the correct chipset and a lot of times there isn't thing one you can do to remedy this. However that being said you still have hope for solving this little issue. You need to download and install the ath5k driver. This should fix the problem.