Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi
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From: Ogya Chief on 26 Dec 2009 10:50 Hi All, I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the wireless card and a Hewlett-Parkard laserjet P1005 printer. I have search for solutions on the internet but so far I have not found any that addresses my problems. For example I went to Madwifi site but most of the links are broken; I tried to use NDISWraper but I could not find the .inf file for the driver. Any suggestion as to what to do to get this working? ifconfig does not list this interface at all. I installed Lenny first and it listed the interface but upgrading to Squeeze does not. With the printer, there appears to be a driver that is loaded by CUPS but the printer would not print. I understand that the printer needs a plug-in for it to work but I do not know what the name of the plug-in is or where to get it. Any ideas? Kind regards, Ogya _________________________________________________________________ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
From: Sebastian on 26 Dec 2009 21:20 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > Hi Ogya > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the > wireless card ...snip... I have a Fujitsu Esprimo laptop which uses the same Wifi-chipset. It took me quiet a while to get it working but I succeeded with madwifi. Wifi works perfectly for me now. The native linux drivers for the atheros chipset seem to be getting better all the time but for me they only work for about 1/2h--1h before I loose connection and have to either reboot or reload all the wifi-related modules. So here's what I did (roughly, it's been almost a year now): When I started off on this journey the current 'testing' kernel (squeeze) was version 2.6.18 (or 2.6.26, I'm not sure). I think the first time around I got it working by just installing madwifi-source (from the non-free branch of the debian repositories) and module-assistant ('apt-get install madwifi-source module-assistant' as root, let apt-get install whatever it says needs to be installed) and then building and installing the modules with 'm-a prepare, m-a a-i madwifi' (you'll probably have to run these as root as well). Also I have to say that I'm not sure if the madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are still in the testing-repositories as I use apt-pinning (testing, stable, unstable). As I was saying above I'm still running kernel 2.6.26 (which is ok because it has all the functionality I need for now - and much more) which is due to the fact that I just never got to get the madwifi-modules to build properly on any later releases (I'm only using the debian repositories). So if you're running a later release I think you might be in for a little bit more trouble. I'm running a custom-built kernel now, this because at some stage the module-assistant refused to build the madwifi-modules for me. Can't remember why, think the madwifi-source was just getting too "old" for the newer kernels. But it works like a charm with 2.6.26 for me. Also I think there might be different AR5001-Chipsets, as: aku(a)hexbrex:~$ lspci |grep -i ath 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 04) ^^^^^^ Hope that gave you a bit of a starting point. Let us know how you get on. Cheerio Sebi -- By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ogya Chief on 26 Dec 2009 23:50 > Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:58:36 +0000 > From: levi.vibes(a)gmail.com > To: debian-user(a)lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Hi Ogya > > > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the > > wireless card > ...snip... > Thanks Sebi for you reply. Unfortunately, madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are not in the testing repositories. In the absence of them what are my options. Backports? I see that they are in etch and lenny. Do I have to downgrade my installation in order to get it working? > > Also I think there might be different AR5001-Chipsets, as: > aku(a)hexbrex:~$ lspci |grep -i ath > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 > Wireless Network Adapter (rev 04) > ^^^^^^ > The output of lspci |grep -i ath is the following: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Regards, Ogya > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian..org > _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
From: Sebastian on 27 Dec 2009 10:40 > > > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > > > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the > > > wireless card > > ...snip... > > > > Thanks Sebi for you reply. > > Unfortunately, madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are not in the testing > repositories. > In the absence of them what are my options. Backports? I see that they are in > etch > and lenny. Do I have to downgrade my installation in order to get it working? > No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade it automagically choses the distro you prefer but you'll see all the available packages in your synaptics/aptitude/apt-get-lists. This is achieved by: 1. add the relevant repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the "stable" or "lenny" repositories, also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file /etc/apt/preferences (create it if it doesn't exist yet) to something like this: aku(a)hexbrex:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 650 the above entries basically tell apt-get & Co. to prefer the testing versions of any package over the stable ones (the higher "Pin-Priorities" are the preferred ones). But it'll be able to "see" all the packages from all the releases included in your sources.list. Then run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update' or whatever other way you use to update your package-cache. Now you should be able to install madwifi et al. There's also a bit of configuration to be done in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, uncomment the line: blacklist ath5k and comment out all the lines below ## madwifi (non-free) Hope that helps > > > > Also I think there might be different AR5001-Chipsets, as: > > aku(a)hexbrex:~$ lspci |grep -i ath > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 > > Wireless Network Adapter (rev 04) > > > The output of lspci |grep -i ath is the following: > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 > Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) > I hope the differences between the revisions aren't too big - I assume the native linux ath*-drivers probably won't work for you either. Or did anybody have much luck going down that route? I'd much prefer to be using free drivers if possible. Good Luck Sebi -- Four thousand different MAGNATES, MOGULS & NABOBS are romping in my gothic solarium!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ogya Chief on 27 Dec 2009 20:30 > Da > No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for > apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the > package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and > configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade > it automagically choses the distro you prefer but you'll see all the > available packages in your synaptics/aptitude/apt-get-lists. This is > achieved by: 1. add the relevant repositories to your > /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the "stable" or "lenny" repositories, > also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where > the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file > /etc/apt/preferences (create it if it doesn't exist yet) to something > like this: > > aku(a)hexbrex:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 650 > > the above entries basically tell apt-get & Co. to prefer the testing > versions of any package over the stable ones (the higher > "Pin-Priorities" are the preferred ones). But it'll be able to "see" > all the packages from all the releases included in your sources.list. > Then run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update' or whatever other way > you use to update your package-cache. Now you should be able to > install madwifi et al. > > There's also a bit of configuration to be done in > /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, uncomment the line: > blacklist ath5k > > and comment out all the lines below > ## madwifi (non-free) > > Hope that helps > Hi Sebi, I have done as you indicated in your email but now the wireless card is not even detected after a restart. Could you show me how my interface configuration file should look like. Regards, Ogya _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
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