On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 23:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:06, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
But the card refuses to connect. It is found. The driver and firmware is loaded. But after that all fails. So, I am running 10.0 on the machine in question. If anyone has solved this, I would be happy. The SUSE hardware info implies this chipset works. I bet it is old info from 10.0
10.0 and 10.1 are not THAT much different, you could probably move the modules (or the RPMs they came in) from 10 to 10.1
It is a kernel module. IIRC, it was called acx_pci. It no longer exists. Or is doing a good job of hiding, I think I read that a new driver is in the works, but not ready. So, of course the working (for me) driver was removed before the replacement is ready. I think the wireless driver layout is significantly different so that I would need to do more than compile the old acx_pci driver. I admit I did not try. Instead I thought I would try ndiswrapper, as others suggested.
If the firmware loads and the card is found, what other tests were done? I can imagine switching back and forth from 10 to 10.1 does not make testing very easy.
After the firmware is loaded, the card tries to contact an access point. I could see that it found one, but nothing happened after that. I control the access point and know that it allows this hardware to access it. I turned off all encryption to eliminate that. Just a 'simple' connection, as done on 10.0. What would a good test be to see what the problem is? /var/log/messages did not say anything. The ndiswrapper driver just went quiet. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23