Wifi activation on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Dear all,

Now i try to publish steps to activate wifi on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Again, I use laptop Acer Aspire 4520 AMD Turion64 X2, atheros wireless.

Let start:

1. Open Terminal window to write a command line.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

2. Download ndiswrapper (make sure that you are already connected to the internet)

Type on the terminal these three command step by step :

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

3. Install Windows Wireless Driver Application.

In this case i use add/remove program.

Applications -> Add/Remove...

Click on System Tools, and then check on the Windows Wireless Drivers checkbox.

Continue with Apply changes.

4. Download your wireless device driver (net5211.inf file).

In case of you use atheros, just type "atheros xp" on the google.

make sure that you get file net5211.inf

save on a location.

5. Set file net5211.inf using Windows Wireless Drivers application.

System -> Administration -> Windows Wireless Drivers

Click on the "Install New Driver" and browse the location of file net5211.inf

Click install.

Now the driver has been installed.

To check it out, type on the terminal : ndiswrapper -l

The command should generate a response like this :

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engineer@BS001NB:~$ ndiswrapper -l
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath_pci)
engineer@BS001NB:~$

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6. ndiswrapper -m and ndiswrapper -ma

In using this command, based on my experience, you must login as root (plese refer to my other post: "Root account in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron" for more detail about root login).

Type on the terminal (root login) step by step:

ndiswrapper -m

ndiswrapper -ma

7. Check weather wifi succeed activated or not.

Type on the termonal : iwconfig

The command should appears wlan0 on the list, indicated that wifi has been activated.

8. Install a wifi manager application.

In this case i use RutilT WLAN Manager

You can use Add/Remove program to install that application.

Applications -> Add/Remove...

Click on Internet, and then check on the RutilT WLAN Manager checkbox.

Continue with Apply changes.

8. That's All.