On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Larry Stotler
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Doctor Who
wrote: I got my daughter a new laptop (Compaq Presario CQ50-142) for Christmas. It came with Vista, but I've now got openSUSE 11.1 on it. It's working well except for wireless at this point. It has an Atheros AR242X wireless card. I'd read on one of the forums that this would work 'out-of-the-box' will 11.1, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
AFAIK, the kernel driver for the atheros cards only supports the 5xxx cards. The older 2xxx cards are not support by that driver. Further, the ath5k driver for the 5xxx cards is not very good from my experience. I generally just delete the ath5k driver and then install and compile the madwifi driver, which is much more stable and I get much faster transfer rates with it.
I was hoping some on this list had experience getting this working and share how they did it.
I believe that there is a madwifi repository that you can add that will automatically add the correct driver. If you compile it yourself, everytime you update your kernel you will have to recompile the driver.
I guess I just need the madwifi and madwifi-kmp packages from the repo? Just install those, re-boot, and go? Anything else? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org