Problem changing wireless card

[ANSEL]

I just purchased the new ubuntu 10 (2 GB of RAM and 500 GB disk) and installed. This netbook is equipped with a Wifi card absolutely rotten with Tx-Power is limited to 5 dBm. So I decided to change the card and try a AR5007EG Atheros card (Manufacturer: Atheros, module: ath5k) from a friend. I plugged it into a mini pci express. The problem: this wireless card does not appear after the command lspci, same with lsusb. Because it does not even appear in the device, I doubt that lsmod would be of any use.

I have already tried this card and works very well on the Mac Book of my friend. Can anyone explain me what is the problem with my wireless card?

[Big Fish]

I have used same wireless card (AR5007EG) as yours and it does not work with ubuntu by default. There's a manipulation that you need to do, look through google for assistance. I myself don't think can explain you things clearly, but googling seems to be solving your problem perfectly OK.

[ANSEL]

In my case, it does not work since my card is not even detected in my device so any module can not walk, but thank you anyway. However I am assuming it as some kind of bug, because Ubuntu 10 is not assigning devices even after boot.

[Snake08]

Open a terminal and type in the following commands:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/comp...-08-05.tar.bz2
tar xvf compat-wireless-2009-08-05.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2009-08-05 /
/scripts/driver-select ath5k
echo "ath5k" | sudo tee /etc/modules
echo "blacklist ath_hal" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo "blacklist ath_pci" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
make
sudo make install
sudo make unload
sudo make load

Your wireless should work, if not reboot and let me know