Wireless troubles on Ubuntu...

[TrainTrackHack]

I can't get my wireless to work with Ubuntu. It says that proprietary drivers for "Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)" and "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" are both enabled and in use; however, no wireless appears in Network Manager and the w/less indicator light says it's off and doesn't change not matter what. I've tried pressing the button on my lappy, I've tried ifdown and ifup but nothing seems to be working. Here's lshw output on my network hardware:

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markus@PRESARIO:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for markus:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:1b:38:bd:bd:cb
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=10.0.0.3 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
markus@PRESARIO:~$
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Currently a DSL modem is hooked up to the ethernet port. I'd really like to get the wireless working, though, because we have a free wifi hotspot in a nearby library and I like to go there to mooch some bandwidth

Distro is Ubuntu 8.04.01 and the system is up-to-date.

Is it possible to get it working using ndiswrapper? I'd like to use Windows drivers as a last resort... and I really don't want to go back to Vista, Linux is so much nicer to me.

Oh and the lappy is the same Compaq Presario C700 as in my previous thread.

 

[spamzillla]

Sometimes NM can be odd and simply refuse to work. Try a network program called Wicd. If that doesn't work, try Ndiswrapper with NM or Wicd. There is a GUI tool for Ndiswrapper if you don't like CLI which makes things a lot simpler, although I'm not sure how well it works.

Driver issues is one reason why I went back to XP, although in my case there are open source drivers, but they just suck!

 

[yagsinia!]

try www.ubuntuforum.org they have about 6000 people on avrg so it's allot better for ubuntu help.