Hi there,

I've spent hours trying to make the wifi work - without success.
I searched the internet for the driver I should need, and then installed it with
package 'windows wireless drivers'.

Now it does show currently installed drivers (netathw and netathwx, hardware present: yes). I tried to install only one or only the other driver.
But any combination just shows
Wireless networks: device not ready.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Iris

I now understand your hardware info question...but I don't understand what you did.

The first thing to check is:This tells you if something is switched off. For example,The wireless is turned off via a software switch. If the Hard blocked was yes it would mean the switch on the laptop was has turned the wireless off. (On my machine it's <FN><F3> to toggle on/off. Others have an actual push putton, or slider, switch)

If hard block is 'yes', flick the switch; If soft is 'yes'...give that a go. If you still have trouble let us know.

I just checked the database. Your machine has It uses the ath5k module (driver) that is already on it.

You can verify this with lspci |grep -i wireless and modinfo ath5k

[LiSt PCI device and return any that match 'wireless' regardless of case (Wireless; WIRELESS; WiReLeSs) and return MODular INFOrmation about athk5]