[Solved!] WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

Alright, lads and lasses. You may not believe this, but I got the wireless working.

Firstly, I gcompiled MADWiFi from the website at marlow.dk. I made sure to use both make-kpkg clean and to delete the linux symlink (which was present).

Then I simply used KWiFiManager to connect (via putting in the WEP key, the Network name and asking it to perform dhclient ath0 at connection time.

Finally, and most importantly, I set the search parameter on my 
http://mynetwork to bellcanada.ca (yes, I was right; that was the problem; the no-domain-set.ca or what ever the devil it was literally was saying I needed to set the DNS.).

It now works quite nicely.

Thanks to every one that contributed.

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