Installing Wireless Card drivers in Ubuntu

[Kieran]

Hi,

I have Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter and a Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet. I want to know if ubuntu 8.10 has the drivers for these.

I have searched the website of my acre laptop, but not finding anything.

Thank for any help.

[worm4u]

The newest Madwifi sources do support this chipset. You'll need to checkout
them from the SVN.

[Fleming]

This tutorial will explain how to Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x wireless cards working in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).First you need to compile latest ath5k driver using the following procedure.Use one of the following method.

Preparing your system

sudo aptitude install build-essential

This will install all the required compilers.

Method 1

Now you need to download the latest wireless drivers from here using the following command

wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...ss-2.6.tar.bz2

Now you have compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 file you need to extract this file using the following command from the terminal

sudo tar -jxvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

Move to the directory you extracted in terminal

cd directoryname

Run the following commands

make

sudo make install

sudo make unload

sudo make load

Uninstall drivers

If you want to uninstall cd in to the wireless drivers directory path and use the following commands

sudo make unload

sudo make uninstall

More here

[Rambo]

I am currently using ubuntu linux on my acer 5610Z.

I can tell you that ubuntu will automatically detect the hardware and gather the drivers for it. I would suggest using the live cd to try out ubuntu before installing it, just to make sure it will work on your computer.

But my laptop is also using an Atheros wireless card and it work fine.

Although I did notice one glitch, is that it will not connect after coming back from suspend or sleep mode, in which as you need to restart it.

[Rily]

Please I am looking for the drivers o (driver) for my card wirless Lan Express AS IEEE 802.11g PCI-E fit . As I look but I found nothing knowing that my PC and a Sony Vaio VGN NR 10E / S Please guide me and Donant a link or the drivers simply tt, contact me by e-mail is nice.