On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 10:23 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 01:48 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:06:05 am Jerry Houston wrote: > > > Rajko M. wrote: > > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > > >> you need to install both the kernel > > > > > > > > Do you mean kernel sources, and compile package? > > > > > > The directions tell you to install (or update) madwifi, then figure out > > > the "flavor" of your kernel, and install the module to match it. Mine's > > > "bigsmp," for example. > > > > > > It didn't work for me, at any rate. When I was done installing (and > > > rebooting), modprobe ath_pci didn't show any results, and I couldn't get > > > the card to connect at all. Since I have the PCMCIA wireless card > > > working fine, it doesn't matter much to me, but I'd be interested in > > > finding how how it goes for James. > > > > > > Perhaps there's some non-obvious step that's needed, beyond what the > > > opensuse.org web site tells us. > > > > I have some experience with Broadcom, but not at all with Atheros. > > The broadcom requires firmware that will be loaded in wireless adapter. > > Two years ago there was no way to get that and wireless didn't worked, now > > there is and laptop works fine. I'm wondering if that is the same problem > > with atheros. > > I have the Atheros chipset (I don't remember which one), on my laptop. > IIRC I required two .rpm's and to use the atheros drive when setting up > the wireless networking in YaST. If his card is like mine, he will not > need to upload any firmware. > > > It would be good if James would accept some type of 'blind shots' and > > report > > results. That method gives ideas, helps not to run in circles as many eyes > > see more. > > It would be good for those of us who have Atheros' cards to post up > what we did to get our cards working. Ubuntu 6.10 when I installed it, > picked up the card and configured it, SuSE10.3 (which is on it now), did > not have the drivers for it and I had to go get them and go through a > good bit of trial and error.
Having finally booted up my laptop, I can actually reply here: madwifi-0.9.3.2-0.1x86_64.rpm openSUSE 10.3 Min Repository (OSS) http://download.opesuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard and madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.2_2.6.22.5_31-0.1x86_64,rpm I installed these two packages, though I did download the one for xen kernels as well. In YaST Network Devices, Network Card shows up as AMBIT Microsystems AR2413 802.11bg NIC the device name is wlan-ath0 and the module used is ath_pci wth no options. I don't remember if I actually had to restart the laptop for it to take effect. I was trying a few things, and was busy worrying about a job at the time so, the above is what I actually know. I hope that some of this helps. A quick look at the sourceforge site indicates a newer version 0.9.3.3 from Oct.17,2007 is out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
