Wifi Adapter Atheros AR5007EG Not Found

[ftokcMember]

My Acer Aspire Netbook A0D250 with Atheros wifi adapter AR5007EG only worked once with the 3-16-2012
Geexbox binary. Geexbox is great! It’s beautiful! But I can’t get the wifi to maintain. I wrote the “network” file and configured the network in Geexbox.
Please help me.
Best regards.

Edit: I’m also getting fails when running “systemctl restart connman.service”. Can’t remember exact error code (maybe ‘exit 2′?)

[ftokcMember]

Bump. Anyone out there?

[tomlohaveModerator]

yes , yes there is anyone, but in my spare time

post your /etc/network, please

and the result of iwconfig

[ftokcMember]

Sorry. Didn’t know you were the only person who could answer my questions. You must be awful busy at times.:)
Also, sorry for the delay. Had equipment problems – a couple of hard drives.
Here are the iwconfig and network results:

iwconfig:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
=======================================================
network:

ADDRESS=””
DNS_SERVER=”68.105.28.13″
FTP_SERVER=”true”
GATEWAY=”192.168.2.1″
HIDDEN=”false”
HTTP_SERVER=”true”
IFACE=”wlan0″
NETWORK=”WLAN”
PASSPHRASE=”a477ed3028″
SAMBA_SERVER=”true”
SECURITY=”WPA”
SSID=”ciscokid”
TELNET_SERVER=”true”
ZEROCONF=”true”

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The card works in both WinXP and Ubuntu 10.04. Do you haave the ATH5K firmware available?

TIA and Best,
Frank Turscak in Oklahoma City
ftokc

[tomlohaveModerator]

with ifconfig result,

replace in /etc/network

IFACE=”wlan0″ by
IFACE=”xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx” where xxxxxxxxxxx is the HWaddr of your card

dmesg too can help too

[ftokcMember]

Thanks! That helped a lot, but it worked only after I changed to SECURITY=”PSK”. It’s working, but sporadically. The system ocassionally changes the network file setting back to the original, IFACE=”wlan0″ and SECURITY=”WPA”. I wrote a script to correct it when that happens.
Do you still want my dmesg?
Script:
#!/bin/sh
#2012-03-22, ftokc
#Juryrig file to startup network. The file, “network.txt”, contains the correct settings.#
#
cd /root
cp network.txt /etc/network
systemctl restart connman.service

I don’t know if I should mark this thread as Solved.
Thanks again,
ftokc

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by ftokc.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by ftokc.

[tomlohaveModerator]

hum, funny
shouldn’t happen if you use persistent …

[ftokcMember]

Don’t need persistent/casper. It’s installed on the hard drive.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by ftokc.

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