How to Activate Wireless Acer Aspire 3684 on Ubuntu 8.04
I just want to share step by step to activate wireless Acer Aspire 3684 on Ubuntu 8.04. If your wireless chipset is same, you could follow this how to. The chipset that used in here is Atheros AR5007 wireless network adapter and please follow this procedure to make it work in ubuntu 8.04 using the latest MadWiFi drivers.
For 32-bit Users
1. First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option:
Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
Reboot your system.
2. Preparing your system
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and copy the following command
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
tar xfz madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot
update:
I’ve just realize that the file above already no longer exist. Please click this link to get the file.
That’s it now your wireless should work without any problem.
Below is for 64bit computer, since my acer laptop still use 32bit. So, I’m no sure the step below will fix your wireless.
For 64-bit Users
1. Blacklist the default driver:
echo “blacklist ath_pci” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. Download the 64 bit driver
wget http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/ar5007eg-64-0.2.tar.gz
3. Extract driver using the following command
tar xvf ar5007eg-*.tar.gz
tar xvf ndiswrapper-newest.tar.gz
4. Ensure you have your kernel headers and the build essential package.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
5. Install ndisgtk
sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
Either use ndisgtk to install the driver or
sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
6. Load up ndiswrapper every time Linux is loaded
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
echo “ndiswrapper” | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
Restart your system.
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If you have access to the inter via the ethernet cable then you could simply use that to update to the newest kernel and your wifi will work. else you do what is statd above and then once everything is uptdate (This will break the current driver installed) then do a reboot. your wifi will stop working but just go to driver manager and reactivate “Atheros Hardware Access Layel”.
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This article was exact for our Acer Aspire with Ubuntu 8.04. The machine ‘woke up’ and we now have our own wireless sytem PLUS discovered 2 more wireless systems in the neighbourhood.
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