My Scattered Techie Notes

My main notebook use Atheros AR5007 based chipset (Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)) wireless adapter and I found it's not automatically working with Ubuntu. I came accross this solution to make it work but I did little modification due to MadWiFi driver update.

By the way, these steps below is for 32-bit users.

1. First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option: Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
   
2. Reboot.
   
3. Open the terminal.
   
4. To make sure your sources is updated you can run
   

   sudo apt-get update

   
   
5. and proceed with
   

   sudo apt-get install build-essential

   
   

   wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3875-20081105.tar.gz

   
   

   tar xfz madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz

   
   

   cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604

   
   

   make

   
   

   sudo make install

   
   

   sudo modprobe ath_pci

   
   
6. Reboot.
   

That’s it now your wireless should work without any problem.

Updated on February 28th 2009, thanks to Shail and SideJacked.