Atheros wireless woes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/29/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks. What does lspci show for it?

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