Comment 138 for bug 182489

HI
    I have been haunted by this problem on my Toshiba L200 as well, no
matter in ubuntu 8.04 nor 8.10. I am looking forward to have an effective
way to solve this problem, since the bug has become a legacy of ubuntu and
it would be unwise to make it into a legend for our honorable community.

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From: "sebass" <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 7:45 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 182489] Re: Atheros wireless (AR5007) not working on
variouslaptops, including the ASUS Eee PC

> HI to all!
> I had been working around this issue since October 2007, including several
> distributions and I still, I found the same "solutions".
> I have an aspire 7520, and I spent a LOT of time trying with madwifi,
> ndiswrapper, acer_wmi, you name it, and after 6 months, I got my atheros
> AR 5007 working on hardy. (I followed all the procedures, installing
> ndiswrapper, blacklisting, installing acer_wmi, dmesg, ..etc). bad, very
> bad
> When Ibex came, I tried it, and I had more problems (out of the box) than
> on hardy, but more important, that still, no wifi.
> This time, ndiswrapper doesn't work, and I won''t try using also the
> acer_wmi stuff.
> So, I will like to know the real status of this issue, at least what
> options do I have at the moment, if I try again the amd64 dist or the
> 32bit.
> If madwifi will work on 64bits or keep trying on ndiswrapper.
> This is so frustrating that I had been using Vista since October (Ibex
> release time).
> Thanks in advance.
> Best Regards!!!
> Sebass
>
> --
> Atheros wireless (AR5007) not working on various laptops, including the
> ASUS Eee PC
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182489
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>
> Status in MadWifi - Atheros Drivers: Won't Fix
> Status in “linux-backports-modules-2.6.24” source package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24” source package in Ubuntu: In
> Progress
> Status in linux-backports-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
> Status in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Hardy: Confirmed
> Status in linux-backports-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid
> Status in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Won't Fix
> Status in “linux-backports-modules-2.6.24” source package in Baltix: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: linux-restricted-modules
>
> The Eee PC has non-working wireless out of the box. A patch is available
> from the madwifi website:
>
> http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679
>
> I'd like to have working wireless in hardy, without having to
> patch/compile manually :)