remy215 - Linux Info

installation driver pour atheros AR5007EG (carte wifi du acer 2920Z):
- utilisation de madwifi: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi
be sure to set up the latest madwifi-tools & madwifi-source packages: "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install madwifi-tools madwifi-source -t unstable"
then follow: m-a prepare && m-a a-i madwifi
by now, the madwifi module should be successfully installed
- http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-5007eg-with-madwifi-on-i386-platform.html

[not working => working]
I removed the kernel module "sudo dpkg --remove madwifi-modules-2.6.18-6-686" then I tried the ubuntugeek.com solution. At first it seemed to fail (dmesg outputed the same error and modprobe wlan_scan_sta turned an error) but a simple reboot made it work !! Maybe this means that the dmesg error is not a problem and the first solution (typical madwifi install) may work as well after a simple reboot. Next time, try to reboot and check "sudo iwconfig" before implementing ubuntugeek.com solution.
error in dmesg:
"wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
wlan_scan_sta: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_find_channel
wlan_scan_sta: Unknown symbol ieee80211_find_channel"

[/etc/network/interfaces configuration]
Do not forget to configure your wifi device. Add the following entries to /etc/network/interfaces:
# WIFI interface
allow-hotplug ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
#iface ath0 inet static
     #address 192.168.1.2
     #netmask 255.255.255.0
     #broadcast 192.168.1.255
     #gateway 192.168.1.1
     wireless-mode Managed
     wireless-essid XXXXXXXXXXXX
     wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXX

Then run "sudo ifup ath0"