Wireless in Ubuntu 7.10 with ndiswrapper

Hopefully, my wireless is working!
The steps I followed to make Wireless working in my Acer Aspire 5100 with an Atheros 5006eg was:

First of all, Ubuntu as default load madwifi drivers, you can check it doing an lsmod:

# lsmod grep ath

the ouput look like this:

ath_pci ....
wlan ....
ath_hal .....

You have to disable this module and install ndiswrapper. To disable the madwifi modules, you have to create a file called blacklist-ath_pci in /etc/modprobe.d/ and add this lines to the file:

blacklist ath_pci
blacklist wlan
blacklist ath_hal

Then, install ndiswrapper (using synaptic or apt-get)

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils

(if you want graphic interface install : sudo apt-get install ndisgtk)

Then append the follow line to /etc/modules file:

# Load ndiswrapper module
ndiswrapper

This make that the ndiswrapper module load at boot time.

Now, go to http://www.atheros.cz and download the atheros ar5006eg driver for Windows XP (if you run ubuntu in 64 bit you have to download the 64 bit binaries for winXP).

Extract the files:

unzip xp64-5.3.0.56-whql.zip

and type,

ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

or

go to System -> Administration -> Windows Wirless Driver (the gtk ndiswrapper gui).

Reboot your system, and you get the WIRLESS working!