This card, using the AR2413 chipset, is working as of 2008-12-30 using madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 on an Acer Aspire 5040 running Linux Mint 6
To get it working, I did this:
- If you are using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distro such as Linux Mint:
- sudo nano /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
- add ath_hal between the quotes, save and exit (ctrl-o, ctrl-x)
- If acer-wmi is not installed, install it, then set your wireless switch on with the following command:
- sudo echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
- Check if you already have madwifi installed
- Run the following two commands for all athX and wifiX interfaces you see when you run ifconfig
- ifconfig athX down
- ifconfig wifiX down
- Next, grab the 0.10 sources and install everything you will need to compile them
- sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) perl subversion
- cd ~
- svn checkout http://madwifi-project.org/svn/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6
- Now you need to unload any previous versions of madwifi (0.9.4 is installed standard in many distros)
- cd ./madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/scripts
- sudo ./madwifi-unload
- sudo ./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r)
- And now you just need to compile and install it
- cd ..
- make
- sudo make install
- sudo modprobe ath_hal
- sudo modprobe ath_pci
- sudo modprobe wlan
- You should now be able to scan for networks and connect!