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                        I have been trying to put my wireless to work, on a sony vaio fw, ubuntu hardy heron, wireless atheros ar928x chipset

I think my problem begins with this

[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ lspci
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. [color=red]Unknown device[/color] 002a (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)[/code]

First I tried with madwifi, my chipset driver is not listed yet, even tough I tried

[code=xml]sudo modprobe ath_pci
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
[/code]

It returned &quot;wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device&quot;, I think this is because of the Unknown device that I recieve with the lspci command. It's weird, because with the device manager, I can see the network controller, but there is not any &quot;networking interface&quot;, but the wired controller has an interface.

Then I tried with ndiswrapper, using the GUI and the command line, both of then showed me that it was ok, I use the drivers that I download from http://www.atheros.cz/, after that I thought that maybe I was using the wrong drivers, so I took them from the DRIVERS folder on my windows vista, but I had the same result. I used the xp and vista drivers, and this is the response that I had

XP drivers install
[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/Users/BitJ/Downloads/xp32-7.6.0.239-whql/netathw.inf 
@BITJ:~$ ndiswrapper -l
netathw : driver installed
	device (168C:002A) present
@BITJ:~$ sudo depmod -a
@BITJ:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
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...after restart

[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ dmesg 
[   35.432010] ndiswrapper (link_pe_images:604): DLL initialize failed for athw.sys
[   35.432037] ndiswrapper: driver netathw (,06/27/2008,7.6.0.239) loaded
[   35.432244] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -&gt; GSI 19 (level, low) -&gt; IRQ 18
[   35.432256] ndiswrapper (mp_init:207): assuming WDM (non-NDIS) driver
[   35.454544] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.1[B] -&gt; GSI 17 (level, low) -&gt; IRQ 17
[   35.454565] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.1 to 64
[   35.456749] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[   35.504429] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:00.0[A] -&gt; GSI 16 (level, low) -&gt; IRQ 16
[   35.504459] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:08:00.0 to 64
[   35.504587] sky2 0000:08:00.0: v1.20 addr 0xd0120000 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 3
[   35.505919] sky2 eth0: addr 00:1d:ba:18:d7:b6
[color=red][   35.979614] lp: driver loaded but no devices found[/color]
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Vista Drivers
After installing, I got this

[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ tail /var/log/messages
Aug 18 19:09:49 BITJ kernel: [ 2453.370983] usbcore: deregistering interface driver ndiswrapper
Aug 18 19:09:49 BITJ kernel: [ 2453.382368] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Aug 18 19:09:49 BITJ loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(358): couldn't load driver netathr 
Aug 18 19:09:49 BITJ kernel: [ 2453.394460] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper[/code]


Some information

[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ uname -a
Linux BITJ 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
[/code]
[code=xml]@BITJ:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:ba:18:d7:b6  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:baff:fe18:d7b6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6630 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:6446998 (6.1 MB)  TX bytes:1028481 (1004.3 KB)
          Interrupt:16 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:102200 (99.8 KB)  TX bytes:102200 (99.8 KB)[/code]
[code=xml]
@BITJ:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
[/code]
[code=xml]jason@BITJ:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: Atheros Communications Inc.
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=ndiswrapper latency=0 module=ndiswrapper
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 13
       serial: 00:1d:ba:18:d7:b6
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 module=sky2 multicast=yes
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thanks in advance...</div>

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