Enabling wifi on Lenovo R60 AR5212 using madwifi

Enabling wifi on Lenovo R60 AR5212 using madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz :

Well i am sure everyone installed madwifi and it actually worked for some people ( see ankur‘s Directives ).
Basically:

1)open terminal in su mode and enter directory where the madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz has been extracted.
2)type ‘make’ press enter

3) type ‘make install’ press enter.

4)type ‘ modprobe ath_pci’ press enter.

Now here some people would have gotten “unable to insert module ….. no such device”

Heres what to be done :

1) go to /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-42.fc8/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k

2) rename ath5k.ko to ath5k.so.bkp (actually you can just delete it or blacklist it see comments)

3) go back to the madwifi directory to termianl

4)type “make uninstall ” press enter.

5)type “make clean” press enter.

6)reboot

7) Rename re-extract your madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz to a different folder ( THIS ISNT NECCESSARY, BUT EVERYTIME I HAD TO DO THIS)

8) enter the new madwifi directory . Type “make clean “press enter.

9)type “make” press enter . type “make install ” enter.

10) type “modprobe ath_pci ” press enter.

NOW no new errors should come your network manager will now have wireless network selection.

11) Reboot

!!!!!!!ENJOY!!!!!!! (PLZ COMMENT IF THIS METHOD WORKED FOR YOU OR NOT!!)

2 thoughts on “Enabling wifi on Lenovo R60 AR5212 using madwifi”

  1. Renaming or deleting ath5k.ko only works until your next kernel upgrade. You should blacklist it instead, which prevents it from being loaded by modprobe on startup:

    1. Unload ath5k (it’s loaded by default by Fedora): rmmod ath5k

    2. To blacklist ath5k, run: echo “blacklist ath5k” >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

  2. Nice Suggestion but for 1 particular laptop of same series (lenovo R60)
    blacklisting didnt work very well.

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