[opensuse] natively supported external wireless cards?
Hello list, I have a cow-orker here who bought a new HP pavilion laptop to use as a media center server. It came equipped with vista, and he fought with it for awhile, then installed xp, and fought with that for awhile, and finally asked me if I could lend him a linux install disk. Opensuse 10.3 installed nicely on the laptop, and just about everything works - the one important thing that does not work is the wireless. It's a new atheros chipset that's not yet supported, and even ndiswrapper bombs out with it. Bottom line is, this guy is impressed with linux, and would like to find a way to make it work, rather than going back to windows. The only thing I can think of, to get past this situation with the unsupported wireless, is an external wireless dongle. I've been spared this pain because all my laptops have had intel wireless, and everything just works. So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper? Your input is much appreciated - Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:56 -0800, Sloan wrote: . .
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
Another option (as opposed to external dongle) is to try Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com) Working on the same principle as ndiswrapper, they might have better support for new drivers/hardware. Rudolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
rudolf wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:56 -0800, Sloan wrote: . .
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
Another option (as opposed to external dongle) is to try Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com) Working on the same principle as ndiswrapper, they might have better support for new drivers/hardware.
Thanks for the tip, but after checking it out, I have no greater success with the linuxant driverloader - here are the syslog messages associated with the attempt: Mar 6 14:09:52 media-server kernel: Symbol usb_register_driver is being used by a non-GPL module, which will not be allowed in the future Mar 6 14:09:52 media-server kernel: Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in the kernel source tree for more details. Mar 6 14:09:52 media-server kernel: Symbol usb_deregister is being used by a non-GPL module, which will not be allowed in the future Mar 6 14:09:52 media-server kernel: Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in the kernel source tree for more details. Mar 6 14:09:53 media-server kernel: driverloader: stack=8192/68/0 REGPARM SMP Mar 6 14:09:53 media-server kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver driverloader Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: 0xf998b000..0xf9a44000 entry = f9a3e005 (pbase = 0x10000) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeInitializeGuardedMutex (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeReleaseGuardedMutex (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeAcquireGuardedMutex (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: InterlockedPushEntrySList (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: InterlockedPopEntrySList (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeReleaseMutex (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeInitializeMutex (ntoskrnl.exe) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisReleaseReadWriteLock (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAcquireReadWriteLock (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisInitializeReadWriteLock (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateMdl (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisRetreatNetBufferDataStart (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMSynchronizeWithInterruptEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeMdl (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisOpenConfigurationEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMAllocateNetBufferSGList (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMFreeNetBufferSGList (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMSetBusData (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMGetBusData (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAdvanceNetBufferDataStart (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeIoWorkItem (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeIoWorkItem (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateIoWorkItem (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMRegisterInterruptEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMResetComplete (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisQueueIoWorkItem (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMDeregisterInterruptEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMSetMiniportAttributes (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMIndicateStatusEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMOidRequestComplete (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisGetSystemUpTimeEx (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateNetBufferList (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeNetBufferList (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeNetBuffer (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateNetBuffer (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeNetBufferPool (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisFreeNetBufferListPool (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateNetBufferPool (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMRegisterScatterGatherDma (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ndis.sys: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: NdisMDeregisterScatterGatherDma (NDIS.SYS) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: unable to load "athr.sys" (-6) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 03/07/2008 06:22 AM, Sloan wrote:
Thanks for the tip, but after checking it out, I have no greater success with the linuxant driverloader - here are the syslog messages associated with the attempt:
<snip> Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeReleaseGuardedMutex (ntoskrnl.exe)
Which Windows version of the driver are you trying? I believe you should NOT use a Vista driver with ndiswrapper or Linexant, but should use a compatible XP driver. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joe Morris wrote:
On 03/07/2008 06:22 AM, Sloan wrote:
Thanks for the tip, but after checking it out, I have no greater success with the linuxant driverloader - here are the syslog messages associated with the attempt:
<snip> Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/ntoskrnl.exe: unable to open (err=-2) Mar 6 14:09:54 media-server kernel: driverloader: athr.sys: export not found: KeReleaseGuardedMutex (ntoskrnl.exe)
Which Windows version of the driver are you trying? I believe you should NOT use a Vista driver with ndiswrapper or Linexant, but should use a compatible XP driver. HTH.
That may be the problem - the card has drivers for vista only. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sloan a écrit :
I've been spared this pain because all my laptops have had intel wireless, and everything just works.
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
why not use simply an intel 3945 pci card as I did? cheap (euros20) and very easy to change (on my acer, beg it's the same on HP) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://clairedodin.voices.com/ http://www.clairedodin.com/ http://claire.dodin.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
Sloan a écrit :
I've been spared this pain because all my laptops have had intel wireless, and everything just works.
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
why not use simply an intel 3945 pci card as I did? cheap (euros20) and very easy to change (on my acer, beg it's the same on HP)
I wouldn't have thought it was changeable, but I'll look into that - Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sloan a écrit :
why not use simply an intel 3945 pci card as I did? cheap (euros20) and very easy to change (on my acer, beg it's the same on HP)
I wouldn't have thought it was changeable, but I'll look into that -
on my acer, the card is just under a small trap with two screws alwqys make a complete check of all the hardware and how it can be changed or simply checked when buying a new computer my check: http://new.dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Acer9410z and I changed the broadcom card (supported, but with poor performances) to an intel 3945 one with very good results (3x the range) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://clairedodin.voices.com/ http://www.clairedodin.com/ http://claire.dodin.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
It's a new atheros chipset that's not yet supported, and even ndiswrapper bombs out with it.
Have you double checked that you loaded the windows drivers to the proper place and set up ndiswrapper properly? I've never know this to fail. Atheros is usually supported directly, without need of ndiswrapper, but I haven't seen ndiswrapper fail yet when the drivers are in the proper place. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
It's a new atheros chipset that's not yet supported, and even ndiswrapper bombs out with it.
Have you double checked that you loaded the windows drivers to the proper place and set up ndiswrapper properly?
I've never know this to fail. Atheros is usually supported directly, without need of ndiswrapper, but I haven't seen ndiswrapper fail yet when the drivers are in the proper place.
I followed the recipe to the letter, and I get this upon loading: ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'KeInitializeGuardedMutex' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'KeReleaseGuardedMutex' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'KeAcquireGuardedMutex' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisRetreatNetBufferDataStart' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSynchronizeWithInterruptEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocateNetBufferSGList' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreeNetBufferSGList' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetBusData' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMGetBusData' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAdvanceNetBufferDataStart' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterInterruptEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMResetComplete' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterInterruptEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisGetSystemUpTimeEx' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferList' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBuffer' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBuffer' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferPool' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferPool' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterScatterGatherDma' ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterScatterGatherDma' ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:210): couldn't prepare driver 'netathr' ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): couldn't load driver netathr; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
It's a new atheros chipset that's not yet supported, and even ndiswrapper bombs out with it.
Have you double checked that you loaded the windows drivers to the proper place and set up ndiswrapper properly?
I've never know this to fail. Atheros is usually supported directly, without need of ndiswrapper, but I haven't seen ndiswrapper fail yet when the drivers are in the proper place.
I followed the recipe to the letter, and I get this upon loading:
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'KeInitializeGuardedMutex'
Weird. On my ndiswrapper (actually on my whole machine I have no ntoskrnl.exe. Did you follow /usr/share/doc/packages/ndiswrapper/README.SUSE ? -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
Weird. On my ndiswrapper (actually on my whole machine I have no ntoskrnl.exe.
Did you follow /usr/share/doc/packages/ndiswrapper/README.SUSE ?
I followed the procedure on the ndiswrapper website, but after looking at the local docs, it seems that the steps I followed are essentially the same. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sloan wrote:
Hello list,
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
So no clues, anybody? nothing supported yet? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 07 March 2008 1:17 am Joe Sloan wrote:
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
So no clues, anybody? nothing supported yet?
I'm using the Airlink101 Model AWLL3055 which uses the zd1211 driver. Works fine as long as you have the firmware installed. It has a 10db antenna and simply works fine on Opensuse 10.3 on two dell laptops. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Richard wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2008 1:17 am Joe Sloan wrote:
So, what sort of usb wireless dongle is recommended? Which ones work well, out of the box with suse 10.3, natively supported, without ndiswrapper?
So no clues, anybody? nothing supported yet?
I'm using the Airlink101 Model AWLL3055 which uses the zd1211 driver. Works fine as long as you have the firmware installed. It has a 10db antenna and simply works fine on Opensuse 10.3 on two dell laptops. Richard
It sounds like the airlink is my only hope. What did you have to do to get the firmware installed? Does it appear in yast as a network device with no command-line fiddling? I ask this because the user is new to linux and it needs to "just work", although I can certainly help with the initial setup. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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