Wireless Not Work in Linux

If you hava any problem about Atheros AR242x wireless i will give you some solution. If you had linux-restricted-modules installed please completely remove these by running the following commands:

sudo update-rc.d -f linux-restricted-modules-common remove


Make sure you have the right wireless adapter run this command in Terminal:

lspci | grep Atheros


If the result of that command is something like this:

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)


Download the driver from internet, this download link

http://madberry.org/wp-content/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
or
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/
compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar


there are many version if the version is not compatible please download the other version. Then extract it with the following command

tar xvf compat*.tar.bz2


Go into the directory:

cd compat*


Then run the following command

make
sudo make install
sudo make unload
sudo make load


The sudo make load command might produce some errors don’t worry about this it loads the ath5k module just fine Now reboot you’re box. You should have wireless after rebooting just run:

iwconfig


The result could look like this:

lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:”linksys”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:AA:AF:58
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=93/100 Signal level:-43 dBm Noise level=-103 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.


If you success please give me feedback. Thank you.