ok. i ran 'lspci -v -v' in terminal. i know for a fact that my bus card is atheros, so i going to show the output that i got that stated atheros.

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc IBM HighRate 11 a/b/g Wireless CardBus Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 128 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at c4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>



can someone tell me what i would do from here to get this driver over the another os that doesnt have the driver. plz and thank you