Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:37 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
> No.  The problem is that the "new" ath5k driver is now included in the
> kernel.  You don't have to build madwifi for the 52xx series chips.
> However, YaST will see older chips(like the 2413 in my DLink card) and
> then automatically use the ath5k driver WHICH WILL NOT WORK!
>
> Therefore, someone who doesn't know will just assume that their
> wireless will work, and then it WON'T.  Trust me, I discovered the
> problem on my Powerbook.  It works fine after I compile the madwifi
> driver.  But anyone who uses automatic setup for hardware will have
> the ath5k driver used for nonsupported cards and then they won't have
> wireless working.

I know. I have the same issue. YaST detects my card, but I can't find
any wireless networks. I filed a bug report months ago, which ended up
being a duplicate of bug #373098.
-- 
Kevin "Yo" Dupuy
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