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Last time I have been write article to activate the Atheros wireless Acer Aspire on Ubuntu 8.04. But after upgrade to the latest kernel of Ubuntu 8.04, The Atheros wireless was gone. Based on uname -a, The kernel upgrade do on 21st October 2008, its mean after upgrade I can not use my atheros wireless. This happen did not notice by me until I got order to check the Wireless connection on the client. I could not connect to the wireless network due to my atheros wireless on acer aspire was disable. So, I need to reactivate again the atheros wireless on my laptop acer aspire.
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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.

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