![]() I now am a happy camper with a fully functional laptop. Now in synaptic you can install wicd to manage your network connections. Windows My Drivers Microsoft DirectX Drivers (Windows 95) Free. ![]() You can install WICD by doing this -> Go to Administration > Synaptic Package Manager > Settings > Repositories > Third Party Software > Click add and insert this -> deb hardy extras Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter My Drivers Free to try Extract, back up, restore, and update all device drivers on your system. So if network manager isn't working for you then try Wicd instead. Before someone chimes in to say how great network manager is compared to Wicd, I say if it works for you great but it wasn't working right for me ( silly little requirement I have that things actually work ). I wanna check something that linux kernel 3. I also removed network manager & gnome network manager and replaced them with Wicd as my network manager. Recently I will get a wifi adapter and its chipset is qca9882, based on ath10k driver. Link to Nvidia Graphics Driver ( 32 Bit ) Link to Madwifi driver for AR5007 with Hardy ( 32 Bit ) Without these to confuse things all that was left was to obtain required drivers from Madwifi and from Nvidia then install them myself which wasn't hard but you will need the packages "make" & "build-essentials" to allow you to compile stuff. Linux restricted modules ( Drivers for Nvidia & Wifi ) had to go bye-bye as did the pathetic Jockey restricted driver manager software. Hardy was more complicated than gutsy and gave me several problems, my final solution was to just remove the following and then install drivers myself ![]() My acer 5520-5716 has dual boot with both Gutsy & Hardy, both now how have fully functional wifi with madwifi patched drivers. First off the AR5007 reports in lspci as being a AR5006 so if your trying to diagnose your problems you should verify your chipset through your PC makers info not lspci. ![]()
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