nixCraft

I read that Ubuntu and Kubuntu 7.04 are both supposed to support the Atheros AR5005G adapter out of the box, but I've found that isn't the case with my laptop. I've attepted to load the driver up using ndiswrapper using both Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS.

After loading the driver with ndiswrapper I get

netmw13b : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present

when typing ndiswrapper -l into a terminal.

So I entered

sudo depmod
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

and got no errors.

But when I do iwconfig I get

no no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions

and when I do ifconfig I get

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:0B:34:85:3E
inet addr:192.168.1.77 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:bff:fe34:853e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:26214 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:27971278 (26.6 MiB) TX bytes:1618775 (1.5 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2964 (2.8 KiB) TX bytes:2964 (2.8 KiB)

Anyone have any suggestions on how I might get my adapter working in Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, or Kubuntu? It works find under Windows Vista. I'm very thankful for any time you can spare.