Wireless in 8.04 with Netgear WG311T

[Ningen]

Yes, another person with wireless issues. I can't get my computer to even see my wireless card, and last night when I was on 7.10 upgrading to 8.04, the wireless was working fine. I've spent the last hour looking through these forums trying to find something to help, but nothing has worked.

[pytheas22]

Please try using the script in this thread to install madwifi drivers--as I recall, the WG311T should have an Atheros chipset and this should do the trick on 8.04 (FYI: on 8.10 this card should work out-of-the-box).

If after running that script without errors and rebooting you still don't have wireless, please post the output of these commands:

uname -m
lspci -nn
lshw -C Network
sudo iwlist scan
dmesg | grep -e ath -e wlan

[Ningen]

When I try running the make command to install madwifi, it gives me Error 2, and when I try the make install command, it gives me Error 1. Help?

Or could you explain how I could update it to 8.10 without that computer having internet access, that would probably be a lot easier to do and much less frustrating.

[pytheas22]

If you download the alternate CD for 8.10 (not the regular CD), I believe there's an upgrade option available.

If that doesn't work or you prefer to stick with 8.04, I can give instructions for installing the driver offline. Please let me know. It would also be good to see the output of 'lspci -nn' just to verify that you indeed have an Atheros wireless card.

[Ningen]

I remember from before that it is an Atheros card. I just didn't know ahead of time that it wouldn't work on 8.04. I just finished downloading and burning the 8.10 Live CD, so I'm going to go try that now. Thanks for your help.