Intel 4965 widreless card

Has anyone had any experience swapping these around? I pointed my Dad toward a non-Centrino laptop, figuring he'd never want to try Linux. Wrong. He's running Ubuntu 8.04 now. I had no luck getting his stupid Atheros wireless card to work. So I dropped mine in and it works flawlessly. Problem with that plan is I'm now without a wireless card.
Mine says "Model: 4965AGN MM1"
There are several on eBay that say "MM2"
Anyone think that would make any difference?

 

Did you try the Mad-WiFi driver in the repos (if it wasn't already loaded in the Restricted Driver Manager)?

Can your laptop use your Dad's Atheros chip?

 

Tried ndiswrapper?

 

If you put the Atheros 5007 card back, you could try the following steps to get the latest patched madwifi driver to work with his Atheros WiFi chipset. This should work for an Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit system (not 64 bit).

1) First go to System> Administration-> Hardware Drivers and disable by un-ticking the following option

Code:

Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)

Then reboot your system

2) Go to System->Administration->Software Sources. Make sure you have "Universe" & "Multiverse" checked.

3) Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and perform the following commands for steps 3 through 7;

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

4) Get this version of madwifi patched driver

Code:

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz

5) Untar the downloaded package

Code:

tar xvfz madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz

6) Get inside the unpacked directory

Code:

cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007

7) Now you can first build, install, and then load, your madwifi driver modules with the following commands

Code:

sudo make && sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci && sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta

8) Now restart your computer and you should be able to see any available networks in your Network Manager.

Good Luck..

 

Those are exactly the instructions I followed. It didn't seem to work. I went thru those instructions three or four times, thinking I'd missed something. Then after a reboot it worked!
The first thing Ubuntu did was download updates, which included the recent kernel update. The wireless immediately quit again.
I did try putting the 5007 in my Acer lappy after reading the recent thread on this forum about Atheros being second to Intel for support. 8.04 didn't even try loading restricted drivers on reboot - it just didn't see any wireless networks at all. I shoulda checked lspci but just pulled the damn thing out in disgust. I'm quite sure I didn't put the wires on the card backward - took pictures and notes before removal.
For those of who who have gotten the Atheros 5007 to work, did you have to reinstall the madwifi or ndiswrapper fixes after kernel updates?

I guess I'll try it again this morning. Looks like I can buy 4965 cards at Amazon for about $35...

Didn't try ndiswrapper. Saw several comments that madwifi was more stable than ndis.

EDIT: Well, I'll be pan-fried. The above instructions worked with the 5007 in my (previously) Centrino Acer. The restricted drivers thingie did come up, it just took a minute or so. Turned off the HAL layer box, but not the "support for Atheros" box. Rebooted. Copied and pasted jas' commands. Got some errors at that very last step but figured what the hey. Rebooted and all the neighbors' networks were recognized. The Atheros doesn't seem as snappy as the 4965 but at least this gets me going for now.

Thanks, guys, for your support!

 

heck i have a spare 4965 chip if you want it

 

weird. When I installed Ubuntu, it recognized my Atheros 5007 chip, and installed the restricted drivers for it. Are you using 8.04? I don't know why it didn't recognize it.