Hi Saifi! Thank you for the suggestions. I had reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 back into the machine as getting the card working in the Suse11 installation was being a bit too problematic.
OpenSUSE11 uses the 'ath5k' module which I believe is the newer open-source modules for the Atheros WLAN cards. The older 'ath_pci' was a working excellent but was proprietary (that is what the Ubuntu community had to say). This, I guess, leading to OpenSUSE guys dropping it and going for the newer one which as of now is broken. OpenSUSE support forums also suggested a few remedies using YaST and I tried them and I guess even those are not free of problems. The installation using YaST, installs a new kernel version called 'linux-xxxxx-pae-<ver-number>' and then installs the 'ath_pci' modules only whereas what you actually need are these (taken from my Ubuntu machine)- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep ath ath_rate_sample 16128 1 ath_pci 249016 0 wlan 236400 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 305376 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pc*i As I told before, the compilation from source code in OpenSUSE was giving errors which I realised subsequently might have been because of the kernel headers and sources not being installed. Surprising, considering that Suse generally gets them installed by default and that being the reason why my thoughts were not chanelised in that direction. I also tried the ndiswrappers to use the Windows drivers, but again I was able to insert the Windows modules but I could see no interfaces. I guess there would have been another procedure to get the new interfaces added! Ultimately, I came back to my 'known devil' - Ubuntu. Ubuntu uses the old modules but somehow they also do not seem to work. So I got the latest tarballs from the madwifi project and compiled them. After the installation and update, installed these packages before compilation- 1. buildessential - sudo apt-get build-essential 2. The gcc/ g++ compliers and everything complied without errors and the WLAN interfaces were added automatically after a reboot. This was done about a couple of days ago and hence never could post it back into the forums here. Thanks again for your efforts and help. I appreciate them very much. Regards, -- Navneet Sreeraman
