wireless not working after both methods

sorry about making another topic.

i have successfully installed ubuntu hardy.
i then proceeded to fix the wifi.
i tried both methods on the help page.
the light on the wifi kill switch works.
but it doesnt turn off.

but mainly...
...the wifi still doesn't work.

 

I'll be happy to try to help you, but you need to provide more info.

First, did you reboot after installing madwifi? My recollection is that you have to reboot before it works.

Second, please go through the steps again of install madwifi. Tell us exactly what you typed and exactly what you go in response, for every step (if there are many, many lines, just give the last 5 or ten lines for each thing you typed). I suspect you typed something wrong. Report back, and we'll try to help. (Well, I will, anyway.)

Cheers.

 

i have rebooted many times.

disabled wireless drivers
rebooted

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

rebooted

Code:

mkdir source
cd source
wget [url]http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz[/url]
tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3942-20090205
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(cal -r)

Code:

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

i added

Code:

ath_pci

to the end of that.
and rebooted.
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And what was the output (just the last 5 lines)?

And what was the output (just the last 5 lines)?

OK, at this point, what is the output if you enter:

Code:

lsmod | grep ath_pci

OK, after you reboot here, what is the output if you again type:

Code:

lsmod | grep ath_pci

And, after you reboot, when you click on the network applet in the upper right side, what do you see?
When you right-click on the network applet, what do you see?

Cheers.

 

will reboot now and check output again.

 

Well, that's annoying. When you try to add the module to the running kernel, you're getting an error message.

Right. If everything had worked properly, you would have gotten "ath_pci".

Googling for "Error inserting ath_pci Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)" helps - others have apparently had the same problem. One solution suggested is to remove linux-restricted-modules (you can do this using synaptic from the menus, or apt from the command line). An easier solution may be to just use the sickboy kernel - Go to http://www.aspireonekernel.com and click on "linux-image-2.6.28sickboy-kuki_0.4_i386.deb." You may need to reinstall the madwifi stuff afterwards to make the wireless work - I don't remember whether that's necessary.

I know this must be frustrating for you. Sorry about that - it's usually much easier.

Cheers.

 

Code:

cal@cal-laptop:~/source/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3942-20090205$ make
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.28sickboy-kuki/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.28sickboy-kuki/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

installed kernel and tried reinstalling madwifi.
another error...

 

Yes, I double posted.

Can you give me some more details of the other solution?
I Get the error in the previuos post now.

 

Boy, you are really not having much luck.

I suggest a change in approach. Install linux4one, which should give you a working Ubuntu 8.04 system with working wireless out of the box. I've been dual-booting linux4one and plain ubuntu, and I actually use linux4one more. But given the problems you've had with wireless, at the very least it will give you a sanity check about whether your problems are hardware related.

See http://www.linux4one.it/ (scroll down for english). Downloads are here.

Cheers.

 

This might not be very helpful (sorry), but I thought I'd chime in...Is there a reason you went for Hardy and not Intrepid? I ask because I installed Intrepid only yesterday and once I'd done all the updates, first thing I did was activate the ath5k wireless driver as per the Ubuntu community docs page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L

Anyway, long story short, it took 2 minutes to do and works fine, even after standby. Have you considered using the ath5k method instead of MadWiFi? The only disadvantage that I can see is that the wifi LEDs don't work, but I don't find that a problem since they never did anything for me in Linpus, and I can never see them anyway because my hand is always perched there

Hope this helps (a bit!)...

 

Do I install that via a USB?
Ohhh.
It's a CD image.
Sorry.
I haven't got an SSD AAO.

 

Sorry, were you replying to me?

It shouldn't really make a difference whether you have an SSD or a HDD, except for a few tweaks in the install (e.g. being able to use ext3 filesystem and not just ext2). I installed Intrepid using a bootable USB. I downloaded the .iso onto my Hardy desktop and created a bootable USB with unetbootin, then used that to boot my AA1. You can do it all on the AA1, however, if you wish. All the details are on the community docs site that I mentioned before.

The only reason I recommended it was that the guy who wrote the howto recommended ath5k as the driver because it was less fiddly and was stable on the AA1.

Hope this helps...

 

Not sure what you're referring to. If you were talking about linux4one, you can install via USB (that's what I did). I don't think it matters whether you have an SSD or regular hard drive. Or were you replying to londonal1010?

 

Thanks everyone. Wireless is now working. Thanks for putting up with me as well

One more question: Is installation the same as on a normal Ubuntu 8.04?