Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help
I have tried both using the madwifi source in yast, and downloading and compiling my own madwifi. Neither worked for me. I tried compiling again this AM after the suggestion came in, just to make sure I got the latest version. But no change. Regards, James -----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ayers <twopinkblobs@t-online.de> Sent: Dec 23, 2007 11:44 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help
On Sunday 23 December 2007 17:59:09 Dimych wrote:
Try http://madwifi.org/ download and build the driver and it should
work. This
is the only way I got my Atheros wifi card working.
They actually have a suse repositury at http://madwifi.org/suse, so you do not need to build the driver yourself.
Dmitry
The point is that the pre-built binary did not work so I had to build my own and that may be the answer for the OP.
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James Gardner wrote:
I have tried both using the madwifi source in yast, and downloading and compiling my own madwifi. Neither worked for me. I tried compiling again this AM after the suggestion came in, just to make sure I got the latest version. But no change.
Regards,
James
James, Did you ever get the wireless working? The developer at madwifi is really good about helping as well. With Atheros, you will be using madwifi and wpasupplicant if you are using wpa-tkip. On opensuse 10.3 both work great with knetworkmanager. I have a toshiba P35 with atheros chipset and it took a little work, but wireless works better on Linux than on windows. Here is the basic setup after you have madwifi loaded: # From the command line as root, check that ath0 station is created: iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"rbpllc" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1C:10:4B:2E:CD Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:6B2E-5834-1B7A-1BA3-FDAA-484B-6E84-3B55 Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality=44/70 Signal level=-48 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm Rx invalid nwid:12662 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. # if NO ath0, then Create the station wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta # Check with iwconfig iwconfig # Bring up the interface ifconfig ath0 up # Insert the scanning module modprobe wlan_scan_sta # Scan for nets wlanconfig ath0 list scan # or for all modems iwlist ath0 scan # if key required iwconfig ath0 key <yourkey> # Connect to the AP iwconfig ath0 essid "eddie" # Get IP address dhclient -s <server> ath0 # or dhcpcd ath0 # For fixed IP ifconfig ath0 <IP address> netmask <netmask> up # To set up WEP (very simple) iwconfig ath0 key yourhexkey # To set up WPA config wpa_passphrase "your_ESSID" "Some_Decent_PassPhrase_of_up_64_Characters"
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and add the lines into the network section created above: key_mgmt=WPA-PSK # proto=WPA proto=RSN Uncomment the proto=WPA line (and comment out the RSN line) to enable WPA. Leave as is for WPA2 (stronger encryption). After the basic setup, make sure your ifup-ath0 file is setup correctly. Mine works like this: [08:27 Rankin-P35a/home/david/linux/RPMS] # cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ath0 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' BROADCAST='' ETHTOOL_OPTIONS='' IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='10' IPADDR='' MTU='' NAME='Askey AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor' NETMASK='' NETWORK='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='ifplugd' USERCONTROL='yes' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='psk' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH='' WIRELESS_EAP_MODE='' WIRELESS_ESSID='** PUT YOUR ESSID HERE **' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID='' WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='** PUT YOUR PSK HERE **' If you are using WPA-TKIP, your wpa_supplicant.conf should look something like this: update_config=1 #run directory (can set group as well) ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant #set to 1 if frames dropped eapol_version=2 # default 1 (0,1,2) ap_scan=2 network={ # disabled=0 id_str="**your label for the interface**" ssid="**yourSSID**" # mode=0 priority=4 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK auth_alg=OPEN pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP proto=WPA proto=RSN psk=**LONG STRING OF STUFF CREATED BY wpa_passphrase** } ** put other network blocks here for (homeESSID, workESSID, etc.) Finally, if you are using KDE, install kneworkmanager. Selecting access points then is just a simple click to select. I hope this helps, good luck. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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