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Hello,
I have a Sony Vaio VGN NR110e. My wireless used to work just fine in Ubuntu. So I know there are drivers for linux.
My Internet is working fine using the ethernet cable. Now I want to get my wireless working. Its able to correctly see my wireless card:
[root@archbox ~]# lspci | grep Wireless
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
I then installed madwifi, following instructions here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#madwifi
Have tried both ath_pci and ath5k. But no luck.
I'm wondeiring if there's anyonen else who had a similar Atheros card and got it working, and using which driver ...
Faraz.
Last edited by fh (2009-07-12 18:33:00)
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Wireless working now.
The driver which worked was ath5k. (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#madwifi)
Also, networkmanager seems to be working. The University wireless network is what I'm using right now. Followed instructions here (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager). Thanks, very well written.
Only thing is: I had to start nm-applet manually after starting xfce4. I'll try to put that into .bashrc. If someone knows of a better place to put that into, please let me know. Thanks.
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In hp dv5 laptop , I got the same wireless chip set and working without any problem.
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)od
lsmod | grep -i ath5
ath5k 121128 0
mac80211 182880 1 ath5k
led_class 3976 3 hp_accel,sdhci,ath5k
cfg80211 67332 2 ath5k,mac80211
ensure that wireless tools are installed correctly.
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In hp dv5 laptop , I got the same wireless chip set and working without any problem.
cfg80211 67332 2 ath5k,mac80211
ensure that wireless tools are installed correctly.
Yes, its working for me now (see post #2). Thanks for your comment.
[faraz@archbox ~]$ lsmod | grep -i ath5
ath5k 121128 0
mac80211 182880 1 ath5k
led_class 3976 1 ath5k
cfg80211 67332 2 ath5k,mac80211
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There should be a session manager or something for xfce that lets you start applications on startup. It's been ages since I used xfce, so I don't know what that might be. .bashrc is not a good solution even if it works (which seems unlikely).
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