Atheros wireless woes

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Just got a new Acer Travelmate 2480 notebook to replace one that was
> overheating.  The research that I did before buying it indicated that
> everything worked well in Linux, but I'm not getting any love for the
> wifi.
>
> Its got the following embedded wireless controller:
>
> Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g
> Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)  168c:001c
>
> This is supposedly supported in both the open source ath5k driver, and
> the madwifi driver, yet neither is working for me.  The madwifi spews
> an error about a bad hardware revision.  ath5k attempts to bring it
> up, and never can find a signal (even though its sitting about 2 ft
> from the WAP).
>
> Anyone here got any Atheros chips working in linux?

I'm running a Netgear pcmcia card with says the device is:

AR5212 802.11abg

and it's using  ath_pci 

anything else I can get you?

Oh, this is on Kubuntu  7.10  on a Thinkpad  X30