>> Have you tried madwifi drivers? Or have you tried using Restricted >> Drivers Manager from System -> Administration? >> >> > > Madwifi site says its not supported.. RDM doesnt work.. >
The Ubuntu Laptop testing team also apparently gave up, but it works now and then with the XP driver, not always. Have a look - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerAspire5570-2792 If you still want to try and set it up with the XP driver that is flaky, here's the how to that my friend Aditya wrote for me .. Step 1: Disable ath_pci sudo rmmod ath_pci sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-common Add the following line at the end of the file blacklist ath_pci Save and close Restart computer step 2. remove any old ndiswrapper by using synaptics or apt-get purge ndiswrapper Step 3: Install the latest Ndiswrapper. Step 4: Find your Windows Wifi (Atheros) Driver folder cd /directory of XP driver/ Step 5: Load drivers with ndiswrapper. sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf < It should say > installing net5211 ... forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 ........ a lot of lines like above... then do a: sudo ndiswrapper -l net5211 : driver installed device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath_pci) Step 6: Load ndiswrapper and check if it worked sudo modprobe ndiswrapper Check it with : dmesg (show that the card installed) iwlist wlan0 scan (will show all APs arround you) Then I did: sudo ndiswrapper -m sudo reboot And the wireless should work... now and then! Regards, -Aswin. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
