Ubuntu 12.04 atheros wifi card not found
When you have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a system with a Atheros wifi card indicated by ‘Device 0037’ when you run lspci then you have a problem that the driver shipped in 12.04 isn’t compatible with that card.
The solution is to compile the driver yourself which is pretty easy so don’t worry 😉
First make sure you install the necessary tools:
sudo apt-get install build-essentials
Download the driver(s) package:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
Unpack it, cd into the directory and do:
sudo su ./scripts/driver-select restore ./scripts/driver-select ath9k make clean make make install reboot
You now have a proper working Atheros wifi card.
That wasn’t to hard 🙂
Cool. And not hard 😉
its really hard if you can only connect to the internet through wifi