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           Summary: AR9170 firmware deprecated; replace with new carl9170
                    firmware
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.4
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Kernel
        AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa-bugs@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20110222
Firefox/4.0b12

AR9170 firmware deprecated; replace with new carl9170 firmware

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170

The ar9170  driver page says:

"This driver is deprecated and it was deleted on Linux 3.0, replaced by
carl9170."

Here is a link to the newer driver/firmware. The carl9170 driver is in the
mainline kernel and the firmware is under a free software compatible GPL
license (strict FSF compliant). Please contact chris at thinkpenguin if needed.
We can test with a number of different cards we sell and support,

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170

The following works around the problem:

1. Open Computer -> Install/Remove Software
2. Enter your password for administor access
3. Go to Configuration -> Repoistories in the menu
4. Click on the Add button at the bottom
5. Click Next
6. Copy
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.4/ into
the box that says URL
7. Go to Refresh -> Refresh All Enabled
8. Click ok and accept Summ Of Changes (Close)
9. Click Apply
10. Search wireless and check the box that says compact-wireless-kmp-desktop

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert wifi card
2. Not shown in the network applet (GNOME/KDE) or via sudo iwconfig


Actual Results:  
1. Insert wifi card
2. Not shown in the network applet (GNOME/KDE) or via sudo iwconfig



Expected Results:  
I'd expect it to show up in iwconfig and the network applet

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