Tuesday, November 30, 2010

set up WIFI in Ubuntu ( Wireless World)

Happy to share you that I managed to set up WIFI in my laptop. steps followed below


1.) disable atheros hardware access layer (System > Administration > Hardware Drivers)
2.) sudo reboot
3.) wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903.tar.gz

if you are not getting this link try with below command:
sudo svn co https://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk


4.) tar -xvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903.tar.gz
5.) cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903
6.) sudo make install
7.) sudo modprobe ath_pci
8.) sudo nano /etc/modules and append ‘ath_pci’
9.) sudo reboot


Happy WIFI surfing

reference:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-ar5007-wireless-with-madwifi-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html


http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-quick-wireless-setup-with-ubuntu-804/