Ubuntu 9.04 madwifi drivers

Has anyone had luck getting the madwifi driver's working with Ubuntu 9.04 (desktop no netbook remix)?

Since switching from backtrack4 to ubuntu 9.04 I have had issues with the ath5k drivers dropping my connection, and if i enable the madwifi drivers it no longer detects anything.

 

the ath5k driver in the ubuntu 9.04NR fresh install works out of the box. then you just need to install backports to make the wifi led work...

 

Have you blacklisted the ath5k module from loading when you activated the madwifi driver?

 

The ath5k driver is sketchy at best. I was using the madwifi drivers previously with no problems, no dropped connections nor speed issues. With the ath5k, my speeds are slower, the connection likes to drop, and monitor mode doesn't work as well.

I can do a usb boot into another debian based os with madwifi, and things work normal again, so I have to assume its the ath5k drivers.


I added

blacklist ath5k

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Then activated madwifi. I get this in dmesg.

[ 9.321139] ath_pci: 0.9.4
[ 9.326045] ath_pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 9.326079] ath_pci 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 9.374793] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
[ 9.374836] ath_pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

Any ideas?

 

Your version of madwifi drivers doesn't support the card in the AA1. You'll need to download and compile a newer version of madwifi.

More at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

I would assume the version that 9.04 automatically downloaded was newer than what I was previously using, should of been by several months.. I will give it a try after I finish re-installing ubuntu (trying some encryption schemes).

 

I'm using the stock ath5k driver and it works great. I'm not sure why everybody is trying to go with the mad wifi driver, what's the benefit?

 

IMO

madwifi is better tested, and more stable. It also works better with tools like kismet and airodump-ng.

ath5k shows incorrect signal strengths. Such as one AP down the street is showing 95%, on in this room is showing 75%
and one in the next room is showing 25%

when really the one in this room should be near 100%, one in the other room atleast 75% and the one down the street should be about 10% or less.

and some of us are just used to madwifi.

 

Has anyone tried transfering large files over SSH with the aspire on wireless and the sshD wired on a lan?
It chokes for me around 7-30mb. Appears to be another issue for me with ath5k.

 

The solid state drive drive in the AAO110L is the issue. It does not have the write/read speed comparable to hard drives and SSD in Eee's.

to make madwifi work.. try to compile a kernel that works for you.

 

Solid state drive is not the issue, as I do not have one.

 

Following this gets madwifi working (credit to incandenza on ubuntuforums)

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi/scripts
sudo ./find-madwifi-modules.sh -r
cd ..
make
sudo make install


if wifi doesnt recover from suspend try
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart



I no longer have issues with speeds, and stability while transfering on my lan, plus signal strength is being reported correctly.

 

O yeah after doing that, then go enable the madwifi in system> admin > hardware drivers, then reboot.