On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:50 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 16:36 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
Hardware information, via yast2, tells me that ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface is present.
It is present but is the driver loaded?
So, it would seem obvious, at least to my limited knowledge that OS isn't finding the wireless card.
It could possibly be that the driver is loaded, but you don't have the firmware for the card. I am not familiar with the acx.... cards, but at least for the prism54 cards, you need the firmware in /usr/lib/firmware or some such place.
First find out what driver the card use. rmmod it. Tail -f your /var/log/messages, modprobe the driver, and try to bring the interface up (ifconfig eth1 up) (could be wlan0 or something else too).
That should give you an indication of what is wrong/missing.
If the native drivers fail, you could always try ndiswrapper - it's well documented on this list.
I think acx cards are broken in 10.1. I had no trouble with 10.0, but the kernel driver present in 10.0 seems to have been removed in 10.1. Odd in that it worked fine for me. I then tried ndiswrapper, as suggested on this list. With firmware (both that which came with the card and other versions suggested on the ndiswrapper site). 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 -- 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