Fix: wifi on 701 and 8.04.1

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The wifi with Atheros equipped eee 701's does not work too well on 8.04.1 (wifi reception is poor, there are connection problems, wifi is very slow and unreliable). It seems that the madwifi drivers that come with array.org's kernel (and thus with Ubuntu eee) are not entirely compatible with the Atheros AR242x. The older version of the madwifi drivers works fine if it is compiled for current kernels.

The answer was found from the help.ubuntu.com wiki ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes ) Tsuki wrote following to the wiki:

This version of madwifi (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604) only gives intermittent WiFi for me - I get frequent brown-outs (no data though connection stays up) and connection failures. The old madwifi (madwifi-ng-r3366+ar5007) linked from here: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly works better for me but doesn't appear to be hosted on snapshots.madwifi.org anymore! I don't have the ability to host the file myself, is anyone already doing it? --Tsuki

So, to fix your slow/falky wifi on your eee 701, download http://file-hosting.site-hosts.net/eeepc/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz , compile, install and reboot. POOF, wifi works lightning fast!

A step-by-step guide:

Download madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz, and copy this file into your home folder, e.g. " /home/your_name ". Start a console window and type the following:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-eeepc
cd ~
tar xzf madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007/
make
sudo make install

This will install the packages required to build the driver, unzip the downloaded File, and build and install the driver.

Note: The commands beginning with "sudo" require that you enter your accounts password. There won't appear any letters on the screen while you do so, thats just fine, simply enter your password and hit enter.