Can someone help me with my wireless driver?

Hello,

I recently installed Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One. I used the following guide to configure my wireless driver:

http://blog.hyperandy.com/2008/11/01/atheros-ar242x-ubuntu-810-ibex/

I followed all the steps, got the wireless internet working, made sure the driver was set to load in /etc/modules, then it stopped working after reboot. I double-checked, and the module is still set to load, and the old wireless driver is disabled. Can anyone help me out here?

 

What do you have to do to get it working again? A modprobe?

Maybe there's an acpi script that's disabling it on startup?

 

I can't get it working again. I did everything in the tutorial to get it working in the first place, then it wouldn't work again after I rebooted.

 

Oh, sorry, I thought you had it working but just not automatically on startup...

Try sudo modprobe ath_pci or just modprobe ath_pci as root.

 

Tried, but same result. I'm testing a different driver right now. I will post results after it installs.

 

Do an lsmod | grep ar5k (that's the pipe symbol, shift + \), if it shows up then it's loading the old driver and probably causing a conflict.

In that case, check for ar5k in /etc/modules and if it exists, remove the entry

 

Ok, new driver actually gives me an option to search for wireless networks and all that jazz, but the networks don't actually show up. Here's the info I got: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/108095/

 

If your AP has no encryption, you can try iwconfig wlan0 ap any essid any and then do a dhclient wlan0 after maybe 10 seconds. Might work...

Sometimes it just takes a minute to get the scan... are you using network manager in gnome? Because you can try using that instead of the manual method.

Also did you check for ar5k causing conflicts

 

EDIT: Wasn't running in root. Now it said "No working leases in persistent database - sleeping."

I am using the network manager in Gnome, and ar5k is nonexistant.

 

OK, well that's a problem with DHCP, at least you're probably associated now... you can check for sure with iwconfig it should say associated... Try a dhclient wlan0 again. if all else fails you can try manually configuring your IP address, gateway, and DNS settings if DHCP won't work. But DHCP *should* work, and manually setting your IP is a headache and not exactly the best.

 

Thanks for the help. Can you tell me how to make sure the driver is completely uninstalled before I try to reinstall the new one?

 

It depends entirely on how you installed it... if you compiled it from source, go to the source directory and make uninstall as root. If it was a .deb package run dpkg -r packagename

If it was some other binary package, refer to the README

Edit: well, good luck, hopefully you post back if it works or not

 

I completely uninstalled all of the drivers, reinstalled the ath_pci one, and cycled my wireless switch, and it worked. I'm guessing my indicator light wasn't working and the hardware wireless somehow got disabled. At least it works now! *crosses fingers*