On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 10:23 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 01:48 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:06:05 am Jerry Houston wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote: ...
you need to install both the kernel
Do you mean kernel sources, and compile package?
The directions tell you to install (or update) madwifi, then figure out the "flavor" of your kernel, and install the module to match it. Mine's "bigsmp," for example.
It didn't work for me, at any rate. When I was done installing (and rebooting), modprobe ath_pci didn't show any results, and I couldn't get the card to connect at all. Since I have the PCMCIA wireless card working fine, it doesn't matter much to me, but I'd be interested in finding how how it goes for James.
Perhaps there's some non-obvious step that's needed, beyond what the opensuse.org web site tells us.
I have some experience with Broadcom, but not at all with Atheros. The broadcom requires firmware that will be loaded in wireless adapter. Two years ago there was no way to get that and wireless didn't worked, now there is and laptop works fine. I'm wondering if that is the same problem with atheros.
I have the Atheros chipset (I don't remember which one), on my laptop. IIRC I required two .rpm's and to use the atheros drive when setting up the wireless networking in YaST. If his card is like mine, he will not need to upload any firmware.
It would be good if James would accept some type of 'blind shots' and report results. That method gives ideas, helps not to run in circles as many eyes see more.
It would be good for those of us who have Atheros' cards to post up what we did to get our cards working. Ubuntu 6.10 when I installed it, picked up the card and configured it, SuSE10.3 (which is on it now), did not have the drivers for it and I had to go get them and go through a good bit of trial and error.
Having finally booted up my laptop, I can actually reply here: madwifi-0.9.3.2-0.1x86_64.rpm openSUSE 10.3 Min Repository (OSS) http://download.opesuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard and madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.2_2.6.22.5_31-0.1x86_64,rpm I installed these two packages, though I did download the one for xen kernels as well. In YaST Network Devices, Network Card shows up as AMBIT Microsystems AR2413 802.11bg NIC the device name is wlan-ath0 and the module used is ath_pci wth no options. I don't remember if I actually had to restart the laptop for it to take effect. I was trying a few things, and was busy worrying about a job at the time so, the above is what I actually know. I hope that some of this helps. A quick look at the sourceforge site indicates a newer version 0.9.3.3 from Oct.17,2007 is out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org