On Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008, you wrote:
>    1. The warning i sent to you in my previous email was from:
>    System-->administration-->hardware drivers

OK, I see - as I don't use the hardware driver option, I didn't know where
it came from.

>    2. I have installed, and in the hardware driver shows:

>
> Device driver Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)-->Enabled --> Status:
> In use
> Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN Cards--> Enabled--> status: In
> use
>
> After do re-check of the type of WLAN hardware: AtherosAR5BXB63 -->
> comply with IDA standard DB100811

Now, AR5BXB63 is something to find some information, much better than the
name you provided earlier.

After digging a bit, I found that there seems to be a problem with this
card. It is recognized by the madwifi driver but it doesn't work anyway.
Here is an article which describes how to make it work by compiling the
driver on your own:

<http://brunoabinader.blogspot.com/2008/05/atheros-ar5bxb63-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron.html>

However, I'm not sure this is easy for someone new to Linux. The
instructions seem to be reasonable, though.

> (I am so sorry if my information is far from your expectation that was
> because I am a new comer in Linux)

Oh, that's never a problem - for someone new to Linux it isn't always
easy to know which information is needed.

> dahlan@Dahlan:~$ sudo modprobe ath_pci
> dahlan@Dahlan:~$ ifconfig ath0
> ath0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Yes, that more or less confirms that the card isn't supported with the
version of the madwifi driver coming with Ubuntu 8.04.

> dahlan@Dahlan:~$ ispci

Now, there is a typo of yours, that's why it can't find the command: it
should be "lspci" not "ispci". Anyway, it isn't needed any more because
you provided the card name already.

Finally: did you intend to send your mail directly to me? There is nothing
wrong with that, but for some reason it went in the spam folder at my
provider. As I don't check that folder regularly, there is a delay of a
few days until I see that mail. It would have been better to send it to
the mailing list for three reasons (apart from the delay):

- Someone else might have a better solution for your problem.
- If my suggestion is worng, someone might correct it.
- Others might have the same problem in the future and see the result when
researching the problem.


Nils