Apparently I am not the only one with this problem.

This was my solution, but it did not work, of course.

I downloaded the tar from another computer. I found the file of the atheros driver that I needed which is apparently atl1c.

I put that file on my ubuntu desktop.

I ran the following in the terminal:

cd ~/Desktop atl1c make sudo make install

I am sure that some of you will find this code laughable, but isn't there a simple code I could use once I have the atl1c folder on the desktop?