[EDGY] Support of Atheros wifi card

[Paul Kaplan]

On Friday 03 November 2006 4:26 am, Alexandre Touret wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried to upgrade my dapper to edgy
> Unfortunately, as read in several threads in ubuntu forums, I saw a
> problem on my wifi connection.
>
> I cant scan thruough the ath0 interface but I cant connect with both the
> netapplet and command prompt.
>
> I saw the following bugs
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+s … +bug/59159
> <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/59159
>> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+s … +bug/66176
> <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.
>17/+bug/66176>
>
> and these threads
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281660
> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/materiel/wifi/atheros_edgy
>
> Should I build install the madwifi-ng ?
> Does it solve my problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards,
> Alexandre
I have a 3 yr old atheros-based card that initially didn't work under dapper 
or edgy.  The problem was easily fixed by disabling IPV6 support.  Follow the 
Dapper directions at: 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4
Good luck.
Paul