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8.04 Beta Live CD (64-Bit AMD) - Atheros AR5007 Driver Not Installed Properly (HP DV6768SE)

Bug #206752 reported by jjcobm
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linux-restricted-modules (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Nominated for Hardy by jjcobm

Bug Description

Using an HP DV6768SE laptop. Ubuntu does not properly install the Atheros AR5007 wireless card driver for the laptop. Ubuntu does state that it is using properitary drivers (Atheros), but I do not see any signs of my wireless card being installed properly so I cannot get any internet access from my laptop (no wireless function).

Hope this gets fixed so I can report bugs from Ubuntu soon.

Thank you.

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Danny Wood (danwood76) wrote :

The AR5007 isnt supported by the madwifi project yet so it wont work.
There is a patch available if you compile it yourself, for 32-bit only.

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vnieto (vnieto) wrote :

I use ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, with ndiswrapper. and AR5007 wireless card
This work only on a fresh install, before a restart, I see the networks, but I can't connect to.

I waiting for 64-bit madwifi, some idea about time for 64 bit driver.

With ndiswrapper are problems, but work.
THope this gets fixed so I can report bugs from Ubuntu soon.
Thank you

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jjcobm (jjcobm) wrote :

Ok. I see now. I suppose I will have to wait for this to get fixed then...

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Annabelle Van Gelder (waxje) wrote :

I have the same problem with an acer aspire . I guess a lot of people are struggling with this. I hope this gets fixed some time because it is forcing people to use Windows for there wireless connection.

lspci gives me this
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

i also tried ndiswrapper but further than seeing the networks it does not get

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vnieto (vnieto) wrote :

I have a hp pavilion with athero ar5007 and 64 bits system, mad wifi don't work for me and with ndiswarpper work very problematic, can some help me?
I attach and script for do work with ndiswapper before firs time.

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mercutio22 (macabro22) wrote :

I had it working with the latest svn snapshot version, but the latest kernel upgrade borked my installation.
I don't know how to fix it. I tried everything.

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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

Hello, thanks for using Ubuntu and contributing by taking the time filing this bug report! It looks like this is a duplicate of bug #182489. Can someone confirm or deny? Thanks!

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

This bug isn't fixable in lrm. Using ath5k from intrepid does fix it.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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