atheros AR5212 wireless on a Thinkpad T42
[ link: T42_atheros | tags: thinkpad atheros | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
I have Xubuntu 8.04 installed on my T42 Thinkpad and everything works good for the most part with the default install except for the atheros wireless card. Network manager would take minutes to connect to my AP, and Wicd and wifi-radar wouldn't connect at all.
So I decided it was the atheros driver that was flaky and not the applications. I finally got it working good, but I had to download/compile different madwifi drivers than what came with my default 8.04 Xubuntu install.
- make sure your *ubuntu box can compile kernel drivers. i.e.
apt-get install linux-kernel-devel build-essential Go get the madwifi drivers. I went and got the stable 0.94 release which can be snagged from here
untar the archive and cd into the madwifi-0.9.4 directory and run make && make install.
reboot the laptop.
Now network manager actually connects to my AP in about 15 seconds instead of taking 2 minutes or more.
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