yeh, let me know … with a little luck, ndiswrapper being loaded may have been confusing things (though that would probably be too easy) ???
[EDIT]
What happens if you delete ALL wireless connections, then set up a new connection manually, and set IPv6 to “Ignore” (for the wireless connection) ?
Had a few problems and think I’ve stuffed it up!
I was getting a constant Nautilus error and stupidly thought I could reinstall it. After removing Nautilus via terminal, Ubuntu crashed and was unresponsive so I have to power off. I’ve managed to boot, but cannot log into any account. Nor sure what to do now, feel like a complete numpty, lol. A reinstall sounds like a tempting option now. :o
you’re probably right … it would be possible to reinstall nautilus from the command line with:
sudo apt-get install nautilus
but my guess is removing the nautilus file manager will also have ripped out a ton of dependencies.
So up to you which route you wanna take … at least a fresh install will give me the chance to test the latest ar5523 drivers from svn.berlios.de
Just been reading about those drivers so yes, going to reinstall Ubuntu now. 
Thanks Mark
I’ll test the other drivers tomorrow … so reinstall Ubuntu, then wait till you see my next posting before adding any wireless drivers … c’ya tomorrow
OK reinstall complete.
Thanks
OK, sorry it took me a while to respond, I had a fight with Ubuntu 12.04 running in a VM so gave up and installed it on a USB stick.
Anyway, the good news is that the Debian instructions seem to work just fine (with slight modification) … I can’t test them with a WG111T as I don’t have one but the module and firmware seems to build/install properly.
OK, let’s get on with it eh ? …
If at any stage during this tutorial you see an error after running a command … stop … and tell me which command caused it, and post the output from that command.
First lets make sure your system is up to date:
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get upgrade
Now REBOOT.
When the system comes back up, open a terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper module-assistant quilt subversion wget wireless-tools
and if asked, hit “y” to accept all the packages … then run:
svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/fullstory/ar5523/trunk/ ar5523
then
wget http://verein.lst.de/~hch/ar5523.tgz
then
tar -xvf ar5523.tgz ar5523/uath-ar5523.bin --strip 1
then
cd ar5523
then
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
then
sudo dpkg -i ../ar5523-source*deb
then
sudo m-a a-i ar5523
then
sudo mv -v ../uath-ar5523.bin /lib/firmware
Now load the driver with:
sudo modprobe ar5523
And with a bit of luck your wireless should spring to life
Please let me know if it works … so future readers will know.
We may have to add those 3 lines from earlier to /etc/modules … to make it hot pluggable (but we’ll decide that once the drivers/firmware are installed and working)
I get ‘cannot move… permission denied’.
Should this be ‘sudo mv’ maybe?
My mistake:
sudo mv ../uath-ar5523.bin /lib/firmware
I’ll also fix it in my last response
Thanks. Should there be any output when that command is entered? There was none.
Nope (but if there was no error, it worked) … but I’ll fix that too by adding the -v (verbose output) option above
as in:
sudo mv -v ../uath-ar5523.bin /lib/firmware
[EDIT]
Fixed above too
you can double check it worked if you want by running:
ls -al /lib/firmware/uath-ar5523.bin
if that doesn’t error, and displays the file info … it moved properly
OK. Good news and bad. The adapter sprung to life as you predicted; the blue light flashed, I saw a list of SSID’s, selected my own, entered my password and waited for connection watching the WiFi icon flutter.
Then, the blue light went off and when I went to use the keyboard and mouse I found my USB ports had all died. Poop!
Looks like I’m going to have to power-off but will wait for you to reply first.
If you only have a USB keyboard, you’ve no option other than to do a cold power off.
but if the Keyboard is working, hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and run:
sudo shutdown -P now
or
Hold Alt+SysRq and whilst holding them type REISUB … leaving a few seconds between each key stroke.
that will reboot safely … but obviously only if your keyboard is working (which it may still be, so try that BEFORE doing a cold power off).
Couldn’t get any response at all so powered off. 
Have restarted with both mouse and keyboard in USB=>PS/2 adapters. Only the WiFi adapter is USB now.
Will any of the previous settings have been lost?
No … is it working ?
because it may still be best to add those 3 lines to /etc/modules
don’t do that yet, just tell me if it’s now working.
It’s working, in that it is trying to connect. USB is working for other devices too - PS/2 mouse wasn’t responding so plugged it into USB and it’s working alongside the WiFi adapter. Blue light is flashing on the WG111T, it’s attempting to connect and all the other SSID’s look fine - no garbled text.
I’m guessing we need those lines in /etc/modules/ then ?
what do you mean by “trying to connect” … isn’t it connecting ?
I mean the WiFi icon next to the clock is running (not exactly flashing but ‘active’), but it won’t actually connect. I’ve tried a couple of times, it asks for the password, I enter it but it still doesn’t connect.
What’s the output from:
ifconfig
and
iwconfig
and
rfkill list
and
iwlist scanning
and
lsmod
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:bb:db:24:00
inet6 addr: fe80::219:bbff:fedb:2400/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9449 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4932 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13939813 (13.9 MB) TX bytes:384466 (384.4 KB)
Interrupt:19 Memory:f0500000-f0520000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4724 (4.7 KB) TX bytes:4724 (4.7 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6c:e8:40:0a
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 No scan results
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
lsmod
Module Size Used by
joydev 17393 0
usbhid 41906 0
hid 77367 1 usbhid
arc4 12473 2
ar5523 21736 0
mac80211 436455 1 ar5523
cfg80211 178679 2 ar5523,mac80211
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
rfcomm 38139 0
bnep 17830 2
bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep
hp_wmi 13652 0
sparse_keymap 13658 1 hp_wmi
binfmt_misc 17292 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 174055 1
psmouse 72919 0
snd_hda_intel 32765 3
snd_hda_codec 109562 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
serio_raw 13027 0
i915 414655 3
snd 62064 15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
wmi 18744 1 hp_wmi
mac_hid 13077 0
soundcore 14635 1 snd
drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915
drm 197692 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
video 19068 1 i915
mei 36570 0
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
floppy 60310 0
e1000e 140005 0