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    Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    I have a samsung N310 (GO) Notebook and installed Ubuntu on it. I used to have fedora but decided to move.

    Everything is working perfectly except the wireless. I can connect to the network but it is very buggy & drops connections frequently.

    Details from lspci

    Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e00c
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ath5k
    Kernel modules: ath5k

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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    Quote Originally Posted by dhblewis View Post
    I have a samsung N310 (GO) Notebook and installed Ubuntu on it. I used to have fedora but decided to move.

    Everything is working perfectly except the wireless. I can connect to the network but it is very buggy & drops connections frequently.

    Details from lspci

    Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e00c
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ath5k
    Kernel modules: ath5k
    It appears you are not alone (assuming you are using 10.04). The following link has a patched kernel that has worked for some, but not for others- might want to take a look at the thread:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466201
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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    The patched kernel didn't work for me either, but installing Madwifi did. This thread tells you how. Though it was written for Karmic, it works for Lucid too.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309072


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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    This may help someone. I have Atheros AR5001 and I have managed to make my wifi work with the following commands:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo modprobe acer-wmi

    and it worked for a wile, but after I've updated the kernel, wifi stopped working. After some good hours of research I found that the problem is how the drivers are loaded. It has to be first acer-wmi and then ath5k.
    So this are the commands that worked:

    sudo modprobe -rv ath5k
    sudo modprobe acer-wmi
    sudo modprobe -v ath5k

    and I've put this in the /etc/rc.local so I don't have to put this commands every time I restart my computer.

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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    I may have spoken a bit too soon when I said that Madwifi worked. It's certainly an improvement on what I had before, but my wifi still has an annoying habit of losing the connection, and the only way I can get it back is to reboot.

    I've tried Zuperman1's solution, but on entering the command
    Code:
    sudo modprobe acer-wmi
    I get
    Code:
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
    FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.ko): No such device

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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    I have similar problem. After putting my Toshiba to sleep... I cannot connect to wifi. It just tries to connect, but doesn't. After couple of sleep/waking up, it connects.

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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    Hi

    Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
    They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...
    With regards
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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    Quote Originally Posted by drpjkurian View Post
    Hi

    Please install the following packages by synaptic package manager
    They are linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic. to solve the random blackouts...
    I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?

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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    Quote Originally Posted by Ian Ferguson View Post
    I can't find "linux-backports-modules-lucid-generic" on Synaptic. Should this be "linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic"?
    Yep
    With regards
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    Re: Help with Atheros AR5001 with Ubunutu 10.04

    Quote Originally Posted by zuperman1 View Post
    This may help someone. I have Atheros AR5001 and I have managed to make my wifi work with the following commands:It has to be first acer-wmi and then ath5k.
    So this are the commands that worked:

    sudo modprobe -rv ath5k
    sudo modprobe acer-wmi
    sudo modprobe -v ath5k
    Thanks, after trying Madwifi without success, trying new kernel that will freeze my laptop, this is the most useful post I read.
    For the moment, this works, and if the problem appears again, I will let a note on this forum.
    I dont know how you find this, but if this is one of the reason why this card does not work good, the answer is so easy that I am surprised nobody saw it before.
    Fingers crossed,
    Thanks
    Philippe

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