Help, Im a noob!

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Basically, Im still new to Linux, so please bear with me. Im running an Atheros wireless card in an Acer Aspire 4720Z notebook. Ive run Ubuntu on my notebook before, but I had someone else set it up for me. Now I dont have any help.I need help setting up my wire less so I can get rid of my ethernet cord. Can someone give me advice or tips, or even just tell me how to do this? Well thanks in advance.

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Anyone? I really dont understand how to get the firmware on my noteook and how to install madwifi.

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I think I may have installed Madwifi. I really dont know. How do I find out?

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have look at the Howto’s
HOWTOs - openSUSE

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You have to install two RPMs: madwifi and madwifi-kpm-kernel_keyword. Have a read of what you need to do here:
Madwifi or Ndiswrapper Wireless Network Drivers - Suse/openSUSE 10, 11 - LAN & Internet access
Just skirt around the ndiswrapper stuff and focus on madwifi

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Well, that guide was nice, but when it says I need to configure my wireless card, I cant. YaST doesnt give me the option. Am I doing something wrong?

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Also, YaST says I’m missing firmware for my wireless card.

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So where do I get the firmware and how do I install it?

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I tried to find that notebook’s technical specifications on the net and couldn’t. We need to know what wireless interface it has.
So what wireless interface does it have?

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To help us help you, open a shell (aka terminal, command prompt, etc.)–if you installed KDE, you can start the Konsole program. Type

/sbin/lspci -v

into the window, and hit enter.

Somewhere in the output, you should see something like (taken from mine):

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7084
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22
        Memory at e0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
        Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k

This says, among other things, that I have the AR5212 Atheros chipset. Something like this will help us greatly.[/size]