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Ath5k is a completely FOSS wireless driver

Ath5k is a completely FOSS reverse engineered wireless driver for Atheros based wireless chipset versions AR5xxx in the Linux Kernel. It has evolved out of MadWiFi, OpenHAL, and the open-sourced HAL code of Atheros and Sam Leffler.

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Atheros wireless not working

I have been struggling hard since i have installed Ubuntu 10.10 but it has been difficult for me to get my wifi working. So here is what i tried. First i checked whether i have the driver using the ifconfig command and it shows the wireless lan…
user5929
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Need wired/wireless atheros driver for AR9285 and AR8152

How can I install atheros drivers to my Toshiba laptop (64bit), manually? I need AR9285 wireless adapter, and AR8152(v1.1) wired, fast ethernet. I cannot connect my UberStudent1.0 (linux OS, Ubuntu10.04,equiv.) to the net. I have on the laptop Mint8…
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Can't detect wireless connections with an Atheros AR2413 on an Acer Aspire 3630

This is a new installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on an acer aspire 3630. The cd drive is broken so I had to install Ubuntu over network (and I suspect it did not install all the packages in the normal installation). The problem is that ubuntu does not…
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Enable only 802.11b/g in a 802.11n in atheros wireless card

I sometimes connect to a defective wireless AP in my office, whose 802.11n is somehow faulty. My Maverick netbook has an atheros AR9285 wireless, which supports 802.11n and wants to connect the AP with 802.11n, failing. I managed to fix the thing in…
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Help set up Atheros ar242x/ar542x wireless adapter

I googled the problem and found this link: http://sage.bt/tips/get-atheros-ar242x-ar542x-wireless-card-to-work-on-ubuntu.html Unfortunately when I input the command into the terminal I get this message: bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:…
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How to Activate wifi in Toshiba Satellite C655?

I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite C655. It came with Windows 7 preinstalled. I've never had a notebook before, but as a desktop user, I was a Ubuntu user since 2 years, and I've never had a problem with drivers, wifi, etc. When I tried to…
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Why is my machine flooding the wireless with LLC protocol packets?

Shortly after upgrading to the recent kernel 3.2.0-36-generic I started to notice that my wireless connection got seriously jammed: Anything over the web (SSH, HTTP(S)) appears to be a bit slow. Pinging my access point produces a rather high packet…
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Wireless problems with Atheros AR9285

I have a Samsung N210 and just installed Ubuntu. I'm new to Linux and I have some problems. I'm using Linksys WRT110 Router. When I'm connected via ethernet cable everything's fine but when I unplug the cable and try to use wireless it's really…
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Wi-fi with ath5k - bad connections after idle

I used some older Ubuntu (so I guess it used madwifi), now I installed new Ubuntu 11.10, but I got problem with wifi, it uses ath5k - everything works, downloading etc, but if I stay to read some page for example (facebook messages etc) a then I am…
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Cannot connect through wireless interface on a server?

lshw -C network shows *-network description: Wireless interface product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: wlan0 …
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How do I install the ath5k driver?

I'm trying to install the ath5k driver in Maverick, but the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes#Wireless don't work. I've tried to install (sudo apt-get install) linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic, and also…
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Login pages stuck loading on Lubuntu (wifi-only behavior)

I recently installed lubuntu 17.10.1 desktop i386 on an old laptop and I'm having troubles with some log in pages (e.g ebay and amazon) not responding. For example if I try to log in on ebay, after I fill my credentials and click log in, the loading…
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How to use Atheros ath5k driver with aircrack-ng?

I have read pages and pages of wiki and I'm just more confused than ever as to driver and patches to use with the aircrack-ng suite. The card chipset is ath5k but the info is conflicting as to which is the best to use. cat /proc/version Linux…
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Acer Aspire One AOA110 randomly hard blocks WLAN0 - How to stop it

My Aspire One netbook is now a notbook. It's an AOA-110 that has worked fine forever and a day (currently with Maverick UNR, fully updated). Last night, I was ereading and went to go online to look something up. I notice that not only am I not…
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Atheros AR242x / AR542x Slow internet speed on ubuntu 20.04

I am getting slow internet speed on my Compaq Presario CQ61 laptop. There is a dedicated wifi/Bluetooth button. When this button is turned off, it starts to blink also. speedtest-cli --share: Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving…
Praveen Kumar P S
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