Enabling Wifi on Lenovo R60 in Linux

So yesterday after hunting for the solution of the wifi problem in Lenovo R60 so quite sometime i finally decided to try DJays solution to build Madwifi and it worked like a charm. I was thinking that there will be a total Open Source solution of the problem but well i just hope that ath5k will replace madwifi soon, anyway here is something about MadWifi

MadWifi is one of the most advanced WLAN drivers available for Linux today. It is stable and has an established userbase. The driver itself is open source but depends on the proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that is available in binary form only.

Ok so lets start, first you need to download the source of Madwifi, go to http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi and download tar.gz source package, extract it now open a terminal and login as root by typing su or sudo -i, then goto the madwifi directory and type
cd scripts ./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r) cd .. now you are ready to compile
make
now to install type
make install
Now load the module
/sbin/modprobe ath_pci now you can easily connect to the net on your Lenovo R60 lappy
To enable the wifi led just edit /etc/sysctl.conf, type
gedit /etc/sysctl.conf and add this at the end of the file and save
dev.wifi0.ledpin=1 dev.wifi0.softled=1 reboot and thats it enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@j4Son?
We will take care of them.

@Ankur
Madwifi should come under restricted coz it depends on HAL which is available only in binary form..

1. Manish on April 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I opened this website for myself long time ago. Today it has become even better. I like the links and info that is given here, I just dislike some people. They make a lot of mistakes when posting or commenting. They are usually rude and have a bunch of problems I think. They spoil this website. I would want them to leave this place alone and go somewhere else to have their kind of fun.

2. j4s0n on April 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
@anomit
Yup you said it right, have tried that
and i think Madwifi comes under restricted?????

3. Ankur on March 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Great work Ankur and Anomit. Anomit-I saw your blog on how to prevent atheros card from being disconnected regularly.
Better post it here too. Will surely help out the general people.

4. Manish Sinha on February 26th, 2008 at 1:02 am
I guess this is for fedora 8, right? ‘Coz Ubuntu comes bundled with the madwifi drivers. Also I’ll post a workaround from my blog that will help those experiencing frequent disconnections while doing even normal surfing. Using ndiswrapper too wont help in this situation as the Windows drivers for the R60 wifi card suffer from the same problem.

5. anomit on February 25th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

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