WiFi setup in Ubuntu 7.10

    Today, wifi was lifted using the ASUS Pro 52RL notebook as an example. My impression is some kind of crap, not a laptop. There is no information on it anywhere, even on the asus website. It is sold only in the media market. Oh well, closer to the point.

    It has an Atheros AR5006EG wireless card on it. Ubunta found and by default turned on a proprietary driver that did not work. Madwifi didn't help me either. In the end, pretty googling, I came across this. For starters, I was advised to add to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-common

    sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
    line:
    blacklist ath_pci

    (in fact, there was no such file there, it was just blacklist, so I added a line to it and just in case I created blacklist-common). Rebooted. Installed the ndiswrapper Windows firewood interpreter:
    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

    I downloaded the driver here (Windows XP 32-bit). Unpacked. Next team
    sudo ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf
    sudo ndiswrapper -m

    Rebooted and, voila, wifi works. A new wlan0 interface has appeared in the iwconfig list.

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