Doctor Who wrote:
Hi all-
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.
I was hoping some on this list had experience getting this working and share how they did it.
Thanks!
Doc, I don't know if you have it working yet or not, but I built madwifi rpms for 11.1 and they are hosted on build service: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty/openSUSE_11.1/ The key for me was to install madwifi and then go configure the new interface in yast to use the ath_pci kernel module instead of the ath5k module. Don't forget to blacklist the ath5k driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. The line in the file should look like: blacklist ath5 Then either rmmod ath5k and modprobe ath_pci and once you have the ath_pci module loaded, the do a depmod -a to updated the modules to load at boot. Below is a small troubleshooting howto I have squirreled away for the madwifi driver: Installing, Troubleshooting and Configuring WPA for the madwifi driver on openSuSE 11.0 (works for 11.1 also) Installation: # First remove all existing madwifi rpms if you have a newer Atheros card, AR242 or later rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep madwifi) # Get the current madwifi rpms that will support newer Atheros cards at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty/openSUSE_11.1/ # After the install, start yast and configure the new network device: Under the 'General' tab, 'Device Control' select 'Enable Device Control for Non-root User Via Kinternet' Under the 'Address' tab, select Dynamic Address Under the 'Hardware' tab, make sure the Module Name is 'ath_pci' Click Next: Operating Mode: Managed Enter your SSID Enter you Authentication Mode, etc.. # Next you will simply need to start network manager and add and configure your card. If you can't find your card, then see Troubleshooting below. Configuring WPA follows troubleshooting below. Troubleshooting: # 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 ath0 # or dhcpcd ath0 # For fixed IP ifconfig ath0 <IP address> netmask <netmask> up Configuring WPA: # 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). Post back if your are still stuck. -- 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