On 12/25/08, Masim Vavai Sugianto
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Doctor Who
wrote: OK, I was able to do a 'make' and 'make install' with the SVN version.
OK, pretty nice :-)
1)What other steps need to be done at this point to get wireless working?
Activating your wifi card within yast | network device | network setting.
2) I guess I want to get this working on the home network with my WAP using WPA via NetworkManager. I noticed earlier that I could get the laptop connected to the wired internet (eth0) with the ifup method, but switching to NetworkManager, it would never connect. I want to use NetworkManager so she can easily switch connections when needed or connect to other WAPs if needed.
Please recheck your hardware tab on your wifi card setting within yast | network device | network setting. In my case, it show ath_pci. If you get ath5k or another driver, you must blacklist the old driver and choose ath_pci.
To disable another wifi driver, add the "blacklist ath5k" or "blacklist another-wifi-driver" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
OK, so here is where I am: 1) When using NetworkManager, I can boot the laptop and have eth0 come up. I do not have an option to create a new connection with wlan0. 2) When I go into yast2 -> Network Settings I see the wireless device listed twice (see attached snapshot1.png). One entry I cannot edit at all per the message at the bottom of the screenshot: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (Not connected) BusID : 0000:02:00.0 Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details. The other I can edit (this is switching back to 'ifup' vs NetworkManager to do the edits) but there is no driver listed on the hardware tab at all. I have blacklisted the ath5k driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist It appears I have the right module loaded per modprobe: linux:/home/sahara/madwifi # modprobe -l | grep ath_pci /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-pae/net/ath_pci.ko What am I not doing or doing wrong to get this working? Grrrrrrr. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org