DLink WDA-1320 Wireless Problems

Here we go again. This time I got a DLink DWA-1320. It has an Atheros
AR5005 chipset. This card is on the SuSE HCL and listed as fully
supported on madwifi.org. I downloaded and installed the MadWiFi SuSE
rpms. lspci and hwinfo correctly identify the card. However, hwinfo does
not assign the device a name. When I start the Network Card function in
YaST it detects a wireless PCI card with an orinco chipset.

I am getting further than what I did with the other cards. I now need to
know how to configure this card. I have to assign it a name, point to the
madwifi driver, get YaST to see the proper chipset and start using this
card. I'll appreciate any help I can get.

Ron,

http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi
any help?

Uwe


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I finally fixed my problem. Even the rpms that don't have src in them
need to be compiled. Going to the directory created by installing the
rpms, I simply had to issue the "make" and "make install" commands. This
wasn't in any of the readme files. "make install" wasn't in the Install
file. modprobe and insmod told me that I was crazy. I finally tried make
install and everything started working.

My guess in that the rpms were intended to be used with YaST. My
downloading and installing from the command line confused me. The Install
file should contain a paragraph about installing the rpms from a command
line.