Acer Aspire 5520

I have an acer aspire 5520 notebook, and i have followed the instructions on using the atheros madwifi and still can't get it to connect to wireless???? :blink:

Also i have an Realtek HD audio sound card and no sound??? :blink:

Can anyone help me
Thanks in advance
P.S I also tried the ndiswrapper, and still nothing

I have an acer aspire 5520 notebook, and i have followed the instructions on using the atheros madwifi and still can't get it to connect to wireless???? [/b]

Reference your wireless, it is possible the madwifi driver will work for you:
http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi
Note you need to install both "madwifi" and also "madwifi-kmp-<your kernel flavor>", followed by typing in a konsole/xterm with root permissions "modprobe ath_pci", and then run yast > network devices > network card to configure your card. Just follow the link I gave for more detailed guidance on that.

The madwifi driver purportedly had (has ? ) a bug for that AR5006... IF (and only if) you have an AR5006 atheros, you could search this forum for the atheros and AR5006, as in one of the threads there is a note as to a fix for that bug. I don't know if the bug is still present in the current madwifi driver.

Also i have an Realtek HD audio sound card and no sound??? [/b]

Reference your sound, please follow the opensuse audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting

My solution to the Aspire's Atheros (AR2413 in my Suse10.3 but 5005 in XP) wifi connecting bug

I've installed madwifi for my wifi card, and Yast2 shows it as working, but Knetworkmanager says there are no network devices, so I can't connect to my network. Any solutions?

The computer is an Acer Aspire 5100

lspci output for the card:

06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

My second problem is that SuSE refuses to mount my DVD-RW drive or my other Linux partition, and the only thing in the /media folder is a file called hal-mtab.lock (or something very similar, I haven't booted into SuSE for a while) which I'm told I don't have enough permissions to modify, open or move.
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I also had trouble with suse 10.3 on an aspire 5100. It seems that even though Yast had indicated that madwifi-0.9.3.99... installed, in my case, there was no wireless device coming up under Yast-NetworkDevices-NetworkCard. There should have been a group of kernel modules for Atheros, listed by lspci, but there were none. You must have ath_pci.ko installed. I first tried to compile and install madwifi 9.4 but although a ath_pci was created it did not connect and when I ran athstats, I saw that the packet stream was full of errors.
I then deleted the madwifi packages installed under Yast Software Management and made sure no madwifi files or ath* files remained anywhere. I downloaded http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/...0.1.x86_64.rpm
then added the directory, where the rpm was saved to, in Yast-Software-SoftwareRepositories and then installed the rpm from Yast-Software-SoftwareManagement. The ath_pci appeared and onboard wireless was recognized as AMBIT AR2413 802.11bg NIC (which is different from what windowsXP recognizes it as).
Then I configured it. I retained the selected DHCP in AddressTab-Dynamic Address, retained On Cable Connection in GeneralTab-DeviceActivation, retained No Zone... in GeneralTab-FirewallZone (which disables the firewall in my case), retained ath_pci for HardwareTab-ModuleName, then Next-ed to WirelessDeviceSettings. Here I changed OperatingMode to "Ad-Hoc" and put "Any" in NetworkName(ESSID). I used "No Encryption" in AuthenticationMode, even though Yast complains. Finally I put my router's LAN in the NetworkSettings-RoutingTab-Gateway which you can get from iwconfig, ipconfig(windows), wlanconfig or something like that.
I had to select my wireless network out of the list of networks KNetworkManager was seeing and the Internet became available. I had to repeat this manual selection of networks again but KNetworkManager eventually memorizes it.
This process is fromhttp://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtonic.html , with the exceptions of using ad-hoc and no encryption. You can select for those after you get connected if you want.