Atheros AR 5001 on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1718 , Ubuntu 10.04

Wireless on Lucid - Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1718

To get the new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx working do the following

1. download http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roadrash/lucid/fsam7400-0.5.2.tbz to your home folder

a@a:~$ cd ~/Desktop
a@a:~/Desktop$ wget http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roadrash/lucid/fsam7400-0.5.2.tbz


2. extract the tarball

now open a terminal and enter the following

$ cd fsam7400-0.5.2

$ sudo make

$ sudo make install

$ sudo modprobe fsam7400

$ sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add fsam7400 to the next line and then save & reboot

fsam7400