More Atheros Problems, Madwifi

I tried ndiswrapper approach, and my problem with that is in an earlier post. Now I am having a (hopefully
trivial) problem with the madwifi approach.

I am following these instructions:http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi

This page tells you to install the madwifi rpms via YaST. I do not have internet connectivity without
getting wireless working, so I got the rpms suggested and walked them to my system on a cdrom.
They came from this page, as per instructions above:http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/

I got these...
...http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/...0.1.x86_64.rpm
...http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/...0.1.x86_64.rpm
...
NOTE THEY ARE FOR SUSE 10.3

I installed them with 'rpm -Uvh madwi*rpm'

This failed.

I got messages
warning madwifi_0.9.3.3-01.x86_64 header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, Key ID 7b4d017e
failed dependencies
kernel (vmlinux) = a3999753971f457a
is needed by madwifi_kmp_default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.x86_64

My uname -r is 2.6.22.5-31-default

So, the 10.3 suse specific madwifi is for 2.6.22.16 and the 10.3 kernel is 2.6.22.5.

What's up??

......
I got these...
...http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/...0.1.x86_64.rpm
...http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/...0.1.x86_64.rpm
...
NOTE THEY ARE FOR SUSE 10.3
.....
What's up??
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Just curious, Is your PC (or laptop) a 64-bit machine ? These drivers are for 64-bit processors.

Just curious, Is your PC (or laptop) a 64-bit machine ? These drivers are for 64-bit processors.
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Yes my pc is a 64 bit machine.

You can grab the kernel update from http://opensuse.unixheads.org/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/ and see if it installs then. Just make sure you update the kernel and reboot before installing the madwifi drivers

You can grab the kernel update from http://opensuse.unixheads.org/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/ and see if it installs then. Just make sure you update the kernel and reboot before installing the madwifi drivers
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Sorry to be clueless, but which of those hundreds of files is 'the' kernel update, and are there
any tutorials for kernel updates, or is that just an rpm install. thanks.

I just compiled the trunk Madwifi for my device, and I personally think it's a lot easier if you just compile it instead of the whole thing with the packages.

Or am I missing something here?

Sorry to be clueless, but which of those hundreds of files is 'the' kernel update, and are there
any tutorials for kernel updates, or is that just an rpm install. thanks.
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You have no way of plugging that computer into a network for 5 minutes for these updates?

You have no way of plugging that computer into a network for 5 minutes for these updates?
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yeah, I went out and bought a 25 foot cable for the pc I wanted to be wireless. So now it's on
the network.

If you're talking about the madwifi upgrades, i have them. They don't work. The 10.3 madwifi rpms
are not installable with the 10.3 suse kernel, because of kernel incompatibilities.

If you're talking about the instructions for kernel upgrade at suselinuxsupport, it looks
complex and I've spent all the time I have allocated for this task on fruitlessly banging my head
against the wall. I'm not going to risk a kernel upgrade for this when I have never done one before.
I give up.

yeah, I went out and bought a 25 foot cable for the pc I wanted to be wireless. So now it's on
the network.

If you're talking about the madwifi upgrades, i have them. They don't work. The 10.3 madwifi rpms
are not installable with the 10.3 suse kernel, because of kernel incompatibilities.

If you're talking about the instructions for kernel upgrade at suselinuxsupport, it looks
complex and I've spent all the time I have allocated for this task on fruitlessly banging my head
against the wall. I'm not going to risk a kernel upgrade for this when I have never done one before.
I give up.
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Ok, now that is on the network add the update repo in yast. Once that is added you can update the kernel via Software management. After that the madwifi packages should match can should be able to be installed. As for the kernel upgrades you are talking about, I'm not sure what they say but it sounds more like rolling your own customized vanilla kernel then upgrading kernels through "official" paths.

Make it even easier, you could add the madwifi repo and use software management to install that also.

Once you add update repo to YaST, it should update automatically, just go to YaST Online Update. If not, got o YaST software manager and type "kernel-default" in the search bar. It should appear in the list to the right, in blue meaning there is newer version available. Just click the checkbox once until you get the update mark (looks like recycle sign). If you click on Versions tab, you should see 2.6.22.17 at the bottom of the list, checked.

I have 2.6.22.17 64-bit, and madwifi (and Atheros card). First thing I did on clean 10.3 installation was to get all the updates. I never did update the kernel manually, it came automatically, I never noticed. After I got all the updates I installed madwifi without problems, from madiwifi.org's OpenSuSE 10.3 repository.