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| Subject: | Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi |
| Group: | Suse-linux-e |
| From: | Mike McMullin |
| Date: | 8 May 2008 |
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:02 -0400, Ed Harrison wrote:
> A. den Oudsten wrote:
> > Ed Harrison wrote:
> >
> >> A. den Oudsten wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mark Misulich wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A. den Oudsten wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I want to connect my Aspire 5315, provided with an Ethernet
> >>>>> Network Card,
> >>>>> In Vista it's no problem but in suse 10.3 I miss a Yast module for
> >>>>> such a job.
> >>>>> Can anybody tell me the steps I have to take to come to a solution?
> >>>>> I'm a user of OpenSUSE sinds long, but no developer.
> >>>>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>>> André den Oudsten
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is a link to a page which links to multiple methods of getting
> >>>> wireless going in Opensuse:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=22475
> >>>>
> >>>> Personally, I use ndiswrapper to install my WinXP or Vista driver ,
> >>>> and it works great.
> >>>> Here is a link to the various howtos:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/
> >>>>
> >>>> Use the 10.2 instructions for Opensuse 10.3. You have to install
> >>>> and use knetwork manager to have a program to detect the various
> >>>> wifi networks available.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark
> >>>>
> >>> From the packman.links2linux.org site I could install wiki-radar for
> >>> 10.3, but trieing to start it nothing happened!!
> >>> KnetworkManager as well as NetworkManager are installed, but I can't
> >>> get them to work
> >>>
> >>> What to do?
> >>>
> >>> André
> >>
> >> I haven't been following this thread, but had a time getting wifi up.
> >>
> >> 1. Is there a module loaded? iwconfig as root will show available
> >> wireless devices. Without a loaded module AND its firmware, you may
> >> see a device; but without both you will never see a network no matter
> >> what you use. At least this is the case with my BCM4318.
> >>
> >> 2. Assuming no module is loaded, do a hwinfo --netcard to see what
> >> you have.
> >>
> >> 3. Mine is a BCM4318, so I installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and
> >> wireless-tools.
> >>
> >> 4. firmware was installed using /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.
> >>
> >>
> >> modprobe bcm43xx gave me a wireless card when invoking iwconfig. It
> >> is not wlan0 as expected, but eth1. Still connects and works.
> >>
> >> Ed Harrison
> >
> > I ran (as root) iwconfig , hwinfo --netcard and lspci -vvv.
> > In Yast Hardware I also found something
> > See attachment
> >
> > Sorry for the lenght of the document, but shortening by me could be
> > the wrong way
> >
> > I'm very curieus,
> >
> > André
> You have an Atheros AR5006EG which is reported to work with madwifi. See
> url below.
>
> http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/i586/ All new as of May 6, 2008.
>
> You probably need madwifi madwifi-devel and the appropriate kernel
> module based on the kernel you are running(it looks like these are for
> kernel 2.6.22.16).
>
> After you get them installed, I know nothing further. Never worked with
> atheros wireless.
>
> Ed
Actually he can fire me off an e-mail, I have an Aspire and am using
the mad-wifi (AMD64 kernel), I'd be happy to go over it with him. It'd
help me too;).
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