Wireless Frustration

[le_bebna_kamni]

I'm over at a friend of a friend's house, and I'm trying to tackle getting my wireless configured under Linux because I've finally found a place (and available time) where I have both a wired and a wireless connection in the same location.

But that's not going so well.

Here's what I've got:

MacBookPro3,1 1.0
2.20 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter
Hardy Heron 8.04

I've searched the forums on Ubuntu for help with this problem, and I haven't gotten anything to work. Mad-wifi isn't working. It doesn't even recognize that I have a wireless card. Iwconfig lists lo and eth0 with no wireless extensions and "ifconfig ath0 up" or "ifconfig wlan0 up" gives me an error message that pretty much says "no such device".

Primarily I've tried multiple permutations on using ndiswrapper with the Dlink driver (I downloaded and tested all three driver versions available from Dlink), and the actual Atheros AR5008 driver. I followed the MacBook Pro tutorial for Ubuntu in addition to visiting various forum for Ubuntu, Intel Mac, etc; I've lost track of how many things I've tried over the past 12 hours of work (not consecutive, I should add), and none of them have gotten wireless up and running. I've even uninstalled the restricted drivers package to get rid of the mad-wifi drivers, as one commenter suggested, and ndiswrapper still hasn't helped.

Here are some of the instructions I've tried (or at least the main ones I've tried *today*):

MacBook Pro/Santa Rosa Tutorial
HAL does not support new Atheros chipID 0x0024 (rev 01) on new Macbook Pro
Airport (atheros) not detected

So I'm frustrated, pretty much to the point of giving up ever having wireless working. I'm not going to post to the forum, because I don't anticipate getting any helpful information, based on past experience. But if you happen to have a MacBook Pro with the same wireless card and you managed to get it working, please let me know how you did it...

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UPDATE

[le-bebna-kamni.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure exactly what did it, but my wireless finally works.

I found this how-to (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=683919) that wasn't exactly my wireless card, but I figured it was worth a shot. I got around to installing the RT kernel headers, as per a commenter's suggestion, and my wireless started working before I actually tried the fix in the original post.

I'm not completely positive if this is what fixed it, or why, but it's worth a shot for anyone following all the other instructions and still unable to get their wireless working.