[tlinux-users:08731] atheros ar5700eg toshiba a215-s4767 on ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) problem

"Alejandro Tomsic" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:23:54 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.toshiba
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi, this is my first time here.
i have the following problem: atheros ar5007eg  wireless doesn't work on my
toshiba satellite a215-s4767.
in theory, gutsy detects it as an 5006eg pci card and installs restricted
drivers for atheros HAL.
i have another partition running windows vista and it works fine. has this
problem been already solved?
please help!

here is the result of an ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:10:79:A0
          inet addr:192.168.42.100  Bcast:192.168.42.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fe10:79a0/64 Scope:Link
          UP DIFUSIÓN CORRIENDO MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          colisiones:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3310100 (3.1 MB)  TX bytes:1092936 (1.0 MB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Bucle local
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK CORRIENDO  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          colisiones:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

as you can see, there is no wlan card...


here is a list of an lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  317192  10
nls_iso8859_1           6528  1
nls_cp437               8192  1
vfat                   16128  1
fat                    60208  1 vfat
fglrx                 765588  11
af_packet              28172  2
rfcomm                 47656  2
l2cap                  28672  11 rfcomm
bluetooth              63876  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                  11272  0
powernow_k8            16608  1
cpufreq_userspace       6048  0
cpufreq_conservative     9608  0
cpufreq_powersave       3072  0
cpufreq_stats           8160  0
cpufreq_ondemand       10896  1
freq_table              6464  3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
sbs                    21520  0
dock                   12264  0
button                 10400  0
ac                      7304  0
container               6400  0
video                  21140  0
battery                12424  0
sbp2                   27144  0
parport_pc             41896  0
lp                     15048  0
parport                44172  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
mspro_block            22536  2
ms_block               29704  0
tifm_ms                10884  0
memstick               16520  3 mspro_block,ms_block,tifm_ms
snd_hda_intel         337192  1
snd_pcm_oss            50048  0
pcmcia                 46232  0
snd_mixer_oss          20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                94344  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           5380  0
snd_seq_oss            36864  0
uvcvideo               52228  0
snd_seq_midi           11008  0
compat_ioctl32         11136  1 uvcvideo
videodev               31360  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
i2c_piix4              11020  0
tifm_7xx1              10112  0
v4l2_common            21888  3 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32,videodev
sdhci                  21004  0
tifm_core              13832  2 tifm_ms,tifm_7xx1
i2c_core               30208  1 i2c_piix4
mmc_core               33416  1 sdhci
yenta_socket           30220  1
rsrc_nonstatic         14208  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            46628  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
pcspkr                  4608  0
snd_rawmidi            29824  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      9984  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
ath_pci               105392  0
wlan                  225736  1 ath_pci
ath_hal               219888  1 ath_pci
serio_raw               9092  0
psmouse                45596  0
k8temp                  7680  0
xpad                   11400  0
snd_seq                62496  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              27272  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         10260  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    69288  11
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10272  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         12560  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp                 38300  0
pci_hotplug            36612  1 shpchp
evdev                  13056  7
joydev                 13440  0
ext3                  146576  1
jbd                    69360  1 ext3
mbcache                11272  1 ext3
sg                     41384  0
ide_cd                 35488  0
cdrom                  41768  1 ide_cd
sd_mod                 32512  3
ata_generic             9988  0
usbhid                 32576  0
hid                    33408  1 usbhid
ehci_hcd               40076  0
ohci1394               38984  0
ieee1394              109528  2 sbp2,ohci1394
atiixp                  7824  0 [permanent]
ide_core              141200  2 ide_cd,atiixp
r8169                  36100  0
ahci                   27012  2
libata                138928  2 ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod              172856  4 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,libata
ohci_hcd               25092  0
usbcore               161584  6 uvcvideo,xpad,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal                16528  0
processor              36232  2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan                     6920  0
fuse                   52528  1
apparmor               47008  0
commoncap               9472  1 apparmor