[opensuse] will pay for wireless help
I have a Toshiba p205d-s7454 laptop with a built in atheros wireless card. The chipset is 5006. I have tried SUSE, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, and no distribution configures the card. I have tried madwifi and ndiswrapper. Neither works for me. I need wireless, or the PC is useless to me. I will pay $50.00 to anyone who will stick with me and help me make it work. I don't care what distribution I run, although I prefer SUSE, and I would like to use KDE. I will reload from scratch if necessary. Currently it has opensuse 10.3 on it. All I ask is that you really know what you are doing, and not just make blind stabs at it from reading internet forums. I have read them all and tried them all. So I need some expert help. Regards, James Gardner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Gardner wrote:
I have a Toshiba p205d-s7454 laptop with a built in atheros wireless card. The chipset is 5006. I have tried SUSE, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, and no distribution configures the card. I have tried madwifi and ndiswrapper. Neither works for me. I need wireless, or the PC is useless to me. I will pay $50.00 to anyone who will stick with me and help me make it work. I don't care what distribution I run, although I prefer SUSE, and I would like to use KDE. I will reload from scratch if necessary. Currently it has opensuse 10.3 on it.
All I ask is that you really know what you are doing, and not just make blind stabs at it from reading internet forums. I have read them all and tried them all. So I need some expert help.
Where are you located? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 22 December 2007 14:40, Joe Sloan wrote:
James Gardner wrote:
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All I ask is that you really know what you are doing, and not just make blind stabs at it from reading internet forums. I have read them all and tried them all. So I need some expert help.
Where are you located?
Atlanta.
Joe
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James Gardner wrote:
I have a Toshiba p205d-s7454 laptop with a built in atheros wireless card. The chipset is 5006. I have tried SUSE, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, and no distribution configures the card. I have tried madwifi and ndiswrapper. Neither works for me. I need wireless, or the PC is useless to me. I will pay $50.00 to anyone who will stick with me and help me make it work. I don't care what distribution I run, although I prefer SUSE, and I would like to use KDE. I will reload from scratch if necessary. Currently it has opensuse 10.3 on it.
All I ask is that you really know what you are doing, and not just make blind stabs at it from reading internet forums. I have read them all and tried them all. So I need some expert help.
Regards,
James Gardner
I have a toshiba A105, with the same atheros card, works perfectly. did you try this ? http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi you need to install both the kernel AND madwifi for it to work, it doesnt tell you that on the madwifi site......((i made the same mistake when first screwing with wireless) did you do both? steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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?
AND madwifi for it to work, it doesnt tell you that on the madwifi site......((i made the same mistake when first screwing with wireless) did you do both?
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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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jerry Houston wrote:
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),
LOL! rebooting, again? The kernel was already installed, you merely added the corresponding madwifi module, so a "depmod -a" followed by an appropriate modprobe command should have been more than sufficient to load the driver.
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.
If there were no results from the modprobe command perhaps there are other problems. Could you see any pertinent messages when running "dmesg" or "tail /var/log/messages" immediately after the modprobe command? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. 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. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 23 December 2007 09:23:36 am Mike McMullin wrote:
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.
It will be good to have more ideas collected. For instance, there is: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_%28Wireless%29 though the table seems to need improvement. It takes 22" wide screen to see it without scrolling. The discussion links for this pages can be used for collection of information. http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_ndiswrapper Than it can be organized and linked from HCL table. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
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.
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it -- Hans Krueger hkr@hanskruegerenterprizes.com mailto:hanskrueger@adelphia.net registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to.
Atheros AR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 this is what I have in my acer travelmate 2480-2968 it's a mini pci-e card not what it was spec out to be using a rt2500 card in it's card slot had to use the serialmonkey latest rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA cvs one to get it to work then use the RutilT utility to control the card using 10.3 now 10 worked real good stuck the card in and worked right out of the box not so with 10.2 or 10.3 didn't try with 10.1 it was a dog hope this helps -- Hans Krueger hkr@hanskruegerenterprizes.com mailto:hanskrueger@adelphia.net registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hans Krueger wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to.
Atheros AR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 this is what I have in my acer travelmate 2480-2968 it's a mini pci-e card not what it was spec out to be using a rt2500 card in it's card slot had to use the serialmonkey latest rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA cvs one to get it to work then use the RutilT utility to control the card using 10.3 now 10 worked real good stuck the card in and worked right out of the box not so with 10.2 or 10.3 didn't try with 10.1 it was a dog hope this helps
Are you sure it is an atheros card? It sounds like a ralink card not atheros. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joseph Loo wrote:
Hans Krueger wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to.
Atheros AR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 this is what I have in my acer travelmate 2480-2968 it's a mini pci-e card not what it was spec out to be using a rt2500 card in it's card slot had to use the serialmonkey latest rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA cvs one to get it to work then use the RutilT utility to control the card using 10.3 now 10 worked real good stuck the card in and worked right out of the box not so with 10.2 or 10.3 didn't try with 10.1 it was a dog hope this helps
Are you sure it is an atheros card? It sounds like a ralink card not atheros. I have a atheros card in the laptop no support for the card I have a rt2500 card for wireless
-- Hans Krueger hkr@hanskruegerenterprizes.com mailto:hanskrueger@adelphia.net registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hans Krueger wrote:
Joseph Loo wrote:
Hans Krueger wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to.
Atheros AR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 this is what I have in my acer travelmate 2480-2968 it's a mini pci-e card not what it was spec out to be using a rt2500 card in it's card slot had to use the serialmonkey latest rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA cvs one to get it to work then use the RutilT utility to control the card using 10.3 now 10 worked real good stuck the card in and worked right out of the box not so with 10.2 or 10.3 didn't try with 10.1 it was a dog hope this helps
Are you sure it is an atheros card? It sounds like a ralink card not atheros.
I have a atheros card in the laptop no support for the card I have a rt2500 card for wireless
The reason I mention that, my laptop has a rt2500 chip set from ralink within my laptop, mini-pci.. The kernel has builtin support for it as rt2x000 module. Unless it is one of the newer atheros chip set, the madwifi seems to work okay. I have it running it in my desktop. Do you mean, you have a rt2500 for the mini-pci and atheros pcmia card? or is it the new express slot? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hans Krueger wrote:
Joseph Loo wrote:
Hans Krueger wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:54:11 am Hans Krueger wrote:
hey I have that card if it's the one I have save your self the trouble it's not supported yet their working on it
What card Hans? There is no reference to any specific model in post that you are replaying to.
Atheros AR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63 this is what I have in my acer travelmate 2480-2968 it's a mini pci-e card not what it was spec out to be using a rt2500 card in it's card slot had to use the serialmonkey latest rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA cvs one to get it to work then use the RutilT utility to control the card using 10.3 now 10 worked real good stuck the card in and worked right out of the box not so with 10.2 or 10.3 didn't try with 10.1 it was a dog hope this helps
Are you sure it is an atheros card? It sounds like a ralink card not atheros.
I have a atheros card in the laptop no support for the card I have a rt2500 card for wireless
The reason I mention that, my laptop has a rt2500 chip set from ralink within my laptop, mini-pci.. The kernel has builtin support for it as rt2x000 module. Unless it is one of the newer atheros chip set, the madwifi seems to work okay. I have it running it in my desktop. Do you mean, you have a rt2500 for the mini-pci and atheros pcmia card? or is it the new express slot?
Joseph Loo wrote: the mini pci-e is the atheros rt2500 is the pcmia card the rt2x00 in suse 10.3 didn't work had to use the rt2500 from serialmonkey the rt2x00 won,t work ether from serialmonkey -- Hans Krueger hkr@hanskruegerenterprizes.com mailto:hanskrueger@adelphia.net registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hans Krueger wrote: [snip]
The reason I mention that, my laptop has a rt2500 chip set from ralink within my laptop, mini-pci.. The kernel has builtin support for it as rt2x000 module. Unless it is one of the newer atheros chip set, the madwifi seems to work okay. I have it running it in my desktop. Do you mean, you have a rt2500 for the mini-pci and atheros pcmia card? or is it the new express slot? the mini pci-e is the atheros rt2500 is the pcmia card the rt2x00 in suse 10.3 didn't work had to use the rt2500 from serialmonkey the rt2x00 won,t work ether from serialmonkey
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