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HP G7061EO laptop, Atheros wireless card and the webcam on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 i386

By cutec

If you have HP G7061EO laptop that has Atheros AR5007 (AR242x) wireless network adapter follow this procedure to make it work in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04

This is for i386 users. I’m repeating that because you might end up messing your system badly if you have 64bit installation.

- First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers and disable both selections having Atheros in their description

- Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal)
- Atheros driver..

- Then Reboot your system.

Preparing your system

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

- Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and issue/copy the following commands

$ wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

$ tar xfz madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

$ cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ sudo modprobe ath_pci

$ sudo reboot

That’s it! Now your wireless connection should work.
Webcam works out of the box. To test it, give the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install cheese

Cheese program should appear after installation in “start” -> “graphics”.

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4 Responses to “HP G7061EO laptop, Atheros wireless card and the webcam on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 i386”

  1. Gustav Says:
    4.08.2008 at 10:46 | Reply

    Hi!

    Thanks for a nice guide :)

    Did you get the wireless button and the brightness control working too?

  2. cutec Says:
    4.08.2008 at 10:54 | Reply

    Hi Gustav,

    Didn’t bother to dip my head on the issue with the wireless de/activation-button, as it’s not that important anyway. The chip won’t draw so much power anyway ;)

    Brightness control is still on the list, trying to figure it out. I’ll make a separate post with the little issues in future.

    Thanks for your reply!

  3. Gustav Says:
    4.08.2008 at 11:11 | Reply

    I’m now able to control the brightness by keyboard.

    I just edited /etc/acpi/video_brightnessup.sh:

    #!/bin/bash

    CURRENT=$(grep “current:” /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness |awk ‘{print $2}’)

    case “$CURRENT” in

    100)
    echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    90)
    echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    80)
    echo -n 90 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    70)
    echo -n 80 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    60)
    echo -n 70 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    50)
    echo -n 60 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    40)
    echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    30)
    echo -n 40 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    20)
    echo -n 30 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    10)
    echo -n 20 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    0)
    echo -n 10 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    *)
    echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness ;
    ;;
    esac

    And the /etc/acpi/video_brightnessdown:

    #!/bin/bash

    CURRENT=$(grep “current:” /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness |awk ‘{print $2}’)

    case “$CURRENT” in

    0)
    echo -n 0 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    10)
    echo -n 0 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    20)
    echo -n 10 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    30)
    echo -n 20 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    40)
    echo -n 30 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    50)
    echo -n 40 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    60)
    echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    70)
    echo -n 60 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    80)
    echo -n 70 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    90)
    echo -n 80 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    100)
    echo -n 90 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness;
    ;;
    *)
    echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness ;
    ;;
    esac

    But I’m still not able to control it from GNOME.

  4. AlexM Says:
    17.08.2008 at 7:13 | Reply

    Your blog is interesting!

    Keep up the good work!

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