Tplink wireless card tl-wn722n with ubuntu 10.04 lts

I bought wireless usb card tl-wn722n. It worked flawlessly with windows xp on my very old toshiba l20-182 laptop. But I’ve reinstalled the system, and now toshiba is working with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I was trying many of the configurations found on the web, but didn’t found one, that was exactly working (without any other part from other posts down there). So this post is only for memo, how to install this specific card on my toshiba l20-182 with ubuntu 10.04 LTS on it.

1. Download following tar package : http://www.mediafire.com/?8hkghqsaxnl9p4i
2. Unzip this package into for example ~/instals/tplink
3. Copy files with extension .fw (so ar9271.fw, htc_7010.fw, htc_9271.fw) to /lib/firmware/
4. Extract compat-wireless-2.6.38.2-2.tar.bz2
5. Go to folder where you have extracted tar file from point 4
6. from terminal run : $ ./scripts/driver-select ath9k_htc
7. then : $ sudo make
8. then : $ sudo make install
9. now this is very important !!!! – after update (with update manager) something went wrong and the whole install of atheros was broken, usb card was working for about 2 minutes and then broke down. And I had to reinstall the system again, to get the card running again. So don’t update the system yet! I will update this post after figuring out why and which package after update broke the wireless usb card functionality. Without update of the system everything is running flawlessly.