https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User joelinux@earthlink.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c2 --- Comment #2 from George Bodley 2008-02-28 10:59:06 MST --- Apparently it's a well known issue with the madwifi people. You have to add the madwifi repositories to the sources list. But even that won't solve the problem because apparently the chip that is reported out as an AR5006EG is actually an AR5007xx and presently there are no drivers for it. I'm going to return the laptop to Office Depot as SuSE is the only Linux distro I have found that will install successfully on the machine, and at that the wireless card won't work. I wish Novel would cut a deal with HP and other Laptop vendors to market laptops with Linux preinstalled. Windows is not something I want and it's frustrating when you buy hardware only to find that it can't work with Linux. http://madwifi.org/ticket/961 http://madwifi.org/ticket/797 http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Madwifi-driver-work-Atheros-AR5006EG-802-1... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User f.de.kruijf@hetnet.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c4 Freek de Kruijf changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |f.de.kruijf@hetnet.nl Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|joelinux@earthlink.net | --- Comment #4 from Freek de Kruijf 2008-03-15 07:25:18 MST --- According to information on Ubuntu forums the madwifi driver for this interface is working for 32-bit only. See 1-click install at the top of http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi . For 64-bit you can get the wifi interface working with ndiswrapper and the Windows XP driver from Acer, at least in my Acer Aspire 5520G. Install the packages ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-kmp-default using YaST. Also get the Windows XP driver from http://www.atheros.cz/ the 64 bit version. The modules in the zip-file are called ar5211.sys, net5211.cat and net5211.inf. After this give as root the commands "ndiswrapper -i /<directory where above modules are>/net5211.inf", "ndiswrapper -m" and "modprobe ndiswrapper". Now you can configure in YaST the network devices, including the wifi interface. Don't forget to put ndiswrapper as the module name in the Hardware tab. HOWEVER!!! My Access Point requires WPA-PSK which requires wpa_supplicant. Maybe this package is needed always with wifi. Somewhere there is a bug, most likely in the wpa_supplicant package. The problem is that only during boot the wifi connections becomes really active and gets a connection with the AP and an IP-address through DHCP. If not during boot I can't get the wlan0 interface to work. The command "iwlist wlan0 scan" shows my AP and other AP's. See the attached syslog what happens when giving the commands "ifdown wlan0" and "ifup wlan0 -o debug". wpa_supplicant sees my AP with ESSID="FLM42BJ", but it can't make a connection. The strange thing is that after making this log and rebooting the wlan0 interface is working and I am sending this through this interface. Obviously no change has been made to ifcfg-wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User f.de.kruijf@hetnet.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c6 --- Comment #6 from Freek de Kruijf 2008-03-15 09:03:46 MST --- Created an attachment (id=202317) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=202317) Syslog messages Syslog messages after ifdown wlan0 and ifup wlan0 -o debug -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User f.de.kruijf@hetnet.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c7 --- Comment #7 from Freek de Kruijf 2008-04-04 18:32:01 MST --- I did analyse the problem with wpa_supplicant further and I found by changing hard coded timeouts in it, that the problem of the interface not coming up is with these timeouts. They are too critical (10 sec. should be 20 sec.). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User hschaa@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c9 Helmut Schaa changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #9 from Helmut Schaa 2008-04-07 07:41:18 MST --- Closing as CANTFIX (aka WONTFIX) due to madwifi not supporting AR5007xx. Not much I can do here, sorry. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005 User hschaa@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365005#c11 --- Comment #11 from Helmut Schaa 2008-04-07 09:18:08 MST --- (In reply to comment #10 from Freek de Kruijf)

The wpa_supplicant issue is reported in the bugreport http://w1.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=233

Thanks a lot :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.