Comments on: How to get Atheros AR242x wireless to work. 2

By: computerscooterman

computerscooterman — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:47:33 +0000

You are a star!

gOS (latest as of 26/01/2010) running on Asus Eee PC…

…now with wireless !!!!!

thanks.

By: Marc766

Marc766 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:03:51 +0000

Thanks a lot, it worked for my Toshiba. Searched a lot on the internet, but this really helps. Great!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:19:14 +0000

Hello,

I have a Dell Vostro A840 which has had wireless problems, and I have tried the excellent suggestions in your post, but have been unable to complete them due to error messages such as the wrong kernel version etc…

I was afraid that I had made such a mess of the operating system that I decided to download the latest version of Ubuntu 9.04 and try that…

Everything works great except the wireless!

Do you have any experience with it?

I will enclose the specific information about my system in case it will help you, and I want to thank you in advance for any help to can give!

Sincerely,

Kevin

My chipset is
kevin@kevin:~$ lspci | grep Atheros
0c:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

My kernel is
kevin@kevin:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep Ubuntu
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+

More info:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/183901/

After all that has been tried in the past week os so… I am unsure/unwilling to do any more experimenting on my own now without some coaching. This installation is fairly clean with the exception that I have installed the backports for this version of Linux.

[mad]Berry says: Please use http://paste.ubuntu.com

By: Deependra Solanky

Deependra Solanky — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:45:10 +0000

Thanks a lot for this nice post. It solved the same problem on Dell Vostro A840 with Ubuntu 8.04.

By: wefgef

wefgef — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:29:13 +0000

I can’t tell you how much this helped. You’re a life saviour!

By: Kartik

Kartik — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:54:07 +0000

Thanks for your reply, i rerun all the commands once again now I am getting stuck at the next step: this is the error which i get:
kartik@kartik-laptop:~/Desktop/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4016-20090429$ sudo modprobe ath_pci
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/net/ath_pci.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
kartik@kartik-laptop:~/Desktop/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4016-20090429$ sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta
FATAL: Error inserting wlan_scan_sta (/lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/net/wlan_scan_sta.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
kartik@kartik-laptop:~/Desktop/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4016-20090429$
I ran demsg, this is the output: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/177562/
Thanks for your reply in advance
Hope it will giv

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:26 +0000

@Kartik, You need to update the build-essential as well.... As well as the new Kernel headers. Run all commands from the top.

By: Kartik

Kartik — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:20:15 +0000

Hi!
Thanks for the detailed instructions on enabling wifi.
I am using ubuntu 8.04, kernel .6.24-24-generic. My wifi was not working after one of the routine updates.
I tried your steps but after running make I get the following error:

kartik@kartik-laptop:~/Desktop/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4016-20090429$ make
cd: 1: can’t cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
How to proceed further.
I had switched over to ubuntu completely since past 4 months and it is the only OS i am using.
regards
Kartik

By: MikeC

MikeC — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:55:53 +0000

I’ve got a Toshiba Satellite L305D That was nearly returned to the dealer for the lack of native Atheros AR242x support from Ubuntu. I do not like messing with dependencies etc, synaptic support for them is one big reason I switched to Ubuntu – I ain’t no sys admin!

But then I found your package and instructions and gave it a go.

They are the best! 4 different Kernel upgrades and every time: It Just Works!

Thank You.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:54:47 +0000

Works fine on Acer Extensa5220-200508Mi
running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Kernel 2.6.4.24-23-generic
Gnome 2.22.3

thank you

By: Karl Alexander

Karl Alexander — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:04:33 +0000

this worked perfectly, tankyou
acer aspire one ssd

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:34:16 +0000

Berry man U rock. I’ve been a dos, windows man since my 8086. 1 month ago I got my hands on a ubuntu live cd. Thanks to people like you, people like me will convert more people like me. “How to” worked great on Compaq f700 . Many thanks.

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:20:51 +0000

Arnold please use this post to “go from here”:
http://madberry.org/2008/08/wireless-with-wpa_supplicant-easier-then-you-think/

When you scan for networks you can “see” them. So all you have to do now is connect use the link above for this. Or use Kubuntu’s Networkmanager.

By: azry

azry — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:09:06 +0000

aii i have laptop benq r45 but wireless not running with ubuntu how to sovle

By: rayne

rayne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:42:32 +0000

Works on HP G60-214EM running intrepid
Thanks very much!

By: Arnold-WGC

Arnold-WGC — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:27:32 +0000

I followed your instructions as illustrated on url:

http://madberry.org/2008/11/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-to-work-on-810-intrepid-ibex/

but my wireless still did not work. The explanation was however quite explicit,
I am brand new to Linux as such this might be a case of user ignorence but I
would like to think I did everything the instructions specified. See the
requested details below the line.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/136958/

Regards

Arnold

edit: Arnold please post the pastebin URL not the text you posted to the pastebin thanks. [mad]Berry

By: jois

jois — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:27:30 +0000

Thank you for this site, but everything I’ve tried has not worked. I have an HP g6–235Dx. I have followed the instructions you’ve offered, have not gotten any errors, blacklisted ath_pci, ath_hal, and although ath0 registers on KNetworkManager, it is shown as disconnected. My physical wireless button does not seem to work and I think that might have something to do with this. Is there a software solution to this problem? Thank you very much.
Here are my stats:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/119486/

Thanks again!

By: dimitar

dimitar — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:09:23 +0000

Hi, everything works fine for me on my asus F5N with mint felicia (based on ubuntu 8.10) with the lastest updates, only after restart i have to run the last 2 comands, to get everything i shaape. Can u tell me how to fix this?

sudo modprobe ath_pci

sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:26:26 +0000

I’m getting the same thing as Alex.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:41:32 +0000

I’ve tried going through the step in this how to, but when I got to cd madwifi*r* I got

alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ cd madwifi*r*
bash: cd: madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz: Not a directory

I’m very new to Ubuntu and have no idea why this has occurred. Any suggestions?

Thanks.