getting ath5k to work with atheros 5007

[konakona]

Hi,

I have had bad luck trying to get my compaq V6719NR to get along with kubuntu. To be specific, wireless card refused to work with either nidswrapper + winxp32 drivers or madwifi (0.9.4 and madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz); the former didnt seem to work with any sort of authentication (802.11 at school, WPA at home), the latter couldnt locate any wireless device.

Since madwifi team have moved their efforts to ath5k and released a new version recently, I decided to give it a try. The driver was downloaded from here, and the installation went wihtout any hiccups. However, there were no networks available to connect to, and the wirless LED on the laptop was off.

Then when I attempted to enable mac80211 as per this guide, I couldn't find anything that reads "Improved wireless confiugration API". Since my kernel is fairly new (2.6.24), so I doubt it is a version mismatch or anything. I tried

sudo modprobe mac802111

and it didnt give me any errors, which suggests that mac80211 has indeed been installed fine.

What else is there to try? The card is listed as AR5007 in vista, but madwifi/ath5k supposedely supports AR5007EG. On Atheros's website, two deviced have seperate xp32 drivers IIRC. What gives?

Oh, forgot to mention which distro I am using: kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE3. It was in mistake that I downloaded this version instead of the KDE4 remix. I can update to KDE4 later whenever I wish right? One more thing, it was the AMD64 variant, maybe that has something to do with the problem I am having?

 

[Doublejr]

I have a similar setup, probably the same laptop give or take a number. I use the madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz drivers but I am running the 32 bit variant. Those drivers are supposedly only good for 32 bit.

I can use WEP haven't tried WPA though.

There is a guide here for 32 bit and 64 bit
Linky

I wish you luck, the 5007 is a newer piece of hardware so it's support is shotty in linux. Good luck.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

So when you have the madwifi drivers installed your wireless card shows up in ifconfig and iwconfig? Did you try "iwlist <device> scanning"? What did dmesg say?

 

[konakona]

oops, I meant WEP.

so I gave another shot at ndiswrapper, as per this guide. still having the same problem of getting a connection failure after being stuck at 28% upon connecting, wireless networks show up fine though. Not sure if this has something to do with WEP, some folks over at ubuntuforums claimed they only had the same issue only with secured networks. Too bad I dont have any unsecure networks to figure that out

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Try it from the command line and see how far you get.

sudo iwconfig //This will list your network interfaces and tell you which ones are wireless.

sudo iwlist <interface> scanning //This will list the details of any wireless networks in the area.

sudo iwconfig <interface> essid <network name> channel <channel number> key s:<wep password in ascii> //Enters information so your wireless card can associate itself with the access point. (there are more details you can enter, but these are the only ones you really need to worry about)

sudo dhclient <interface> //Calls the dhcp client and requests an IP address from the access point.

 

[konakona]

I have reluctantly put this on hold for some time, and now I have an actual need for it as one of my classes calls for linux-able computers.
School suggests using xsupplicant and supplies .conf + cert file to go with, but this seems to be obsolete and no-go. Going back to wpa_supplicant, I can see the network I want to connect to after a scan - unable to move any further though.

Authentication scheme we use here is PEAP-MSCHAPv2, no keys to speak of as far as I could tell.

I will try to post text dump of wpa_supplicant shortly.