-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:42 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Atheros driver under x86_64 not working.

Richard Lemon <lemonr@mcao.maricopa.gov> writes:

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On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:44 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> writes:

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My personal impression is: wpa_supplicant is not very reliable. So I don't use it at the moment.

Please test beta4 again, it will contain an updated wpa_supplicant. If this is not reliable, please file a bugreport,

Andreas - currently using the new wpa_supplicant to test it for beta4;-)

Excellent. I've tried both the RPM Eberhard suggested and compiling from CVS from the madwifi sourceforge site. Both get the card working fine except for WPA. I was starting to think it was the wpa_supplicant. I'll definitely try it when beta 4 is released and let you know the results.

please file a bug report in bugzilla if it does not work with beta4,

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Hi all, I'd like to thank Andreas and Eberhard for their responses when I posed my query a while ago. I've just finished installing beta 4 on my system and, after applying the non-gpl kernel rpm, everything is working fine. It seems the previous solutions worked fine also, for beta 3 and such. My problem in diagnosing what is going on seems to be solely in the DI-624 wireless router I was using. It seems that the DHCP server on this item doesn't work quite right with Linux. My Windows machines can pull an IP off of it just fine, and while it reports it hands out IP's just fine to the Linux boxes, the Linux boxes are responding with statements like "network is not available" when I run dhcpcd. So while I was thinking this was a WPA issue, or a madwifi driver issue, this really was a "DHCP not working correctly" issue. After putting static IP's in the machines, everything worked wonderful I did not have to alter anything else besides installing the non-gpl kernel rpm. It was kind of humbling to have to use a Windows machine to go get this RPM though. So other than a bit of bruised pride, everything is great. Thanks again. Richard Lemon