Setup WiFi on Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 03:25

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I have Compaq Presario C772TU Notebook PC which has Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter.

Last Saturday I installed Fedora 8 on my Laptop but WiFi was not working. After searching on the Internet I came to know that Atheros AR5006x has some issues with Linux.

I tried installing NDISwrapper and MadWifi but no Luck. I then mailed Fedora Testing Group and I got some responses from other member and my problem was solved.

Here are the steps.

1. Download this version of MadWifi.

wget -c http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

2. Untar the downloaded Package.

tar xvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

3. Enter the extracted directory

cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007

4. Install MadWifi

make
make install
/sbin/modprobe ath_pci
/sbin/modprobe wlan_scan_sta

5. Restart of PC or Network

You should now see available networks in your network manager.

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Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 01:40.

#1

broken link!

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Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 19:34.

#2

Hi Ravi,
I have a Presario C700 notebook, I have Atheros ar5006 x and i have installed fedora 8.
I followed ur tutorial and downloaded the tar.
When i try to do a make it says :

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.21.fc8xen/build: No such file or directory.

I m a newbie to linux.

Please help.

Regards,
ajit