Restricted Drivers automatically turn off

[Sushimatt]

Hi there...

I am a real newbie in what linux is about, i have installed ubuntu before and now i got a mint elyssa distro installed.
Now, i could install it finally with working wifi capabilities by using madwifi and the restricted drivers HAL.

the problem is that every time my linux boots, i find myself without the wifi again because both the HAL and the Atheros support on restricted drivers turn into "not currently in use" so I have to unclick and deactivate them, and reactivate them again, so that linux can start finding the wireless connections.

any idea? how can i fix this? is there a possiblity to change it and make it read only?
cheers, Matt

p.s. sorry about the ignorance.

[67GTA]

The drivers loaded by the driver manager might not work with your card.(sometimes it has to guess) Post the output of

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lspci

from a terminal.

[67GTA]

There has been a lot of trouble with wireless in the 2.6.24 kernel. I would suggest using ndiswrapper. The driver is already in your filesystem. If your not afraid of using the command line, it's not too bad. First go to the drivers manager and disable both ath_pci and ath_hal drivers. Then remove and blacklist the ath_pci driver so it won't be loaded at boot. In a terminal run

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sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

add

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blacklist ath_pci

at the end of the file and save it. Then run

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sudo modprobe -r ath_pci

Then open the "Windows Wireless Drivers" tool:Menu>Administration>Windows Wireless Drivers. When it asks for a driver navigate to /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/drivers/Atheros_AR5007eg/net5211.inf. Tell it to install. Then in a terminal

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sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

to load the module and

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sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add

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ndiswrapper

to the end of the file and save it so ndiswrapper module will be loaded at boot. After a reboot, it should be working(crosses his fingers). Just click on the networkmanager icon and select your connection.