10.3 + Wireless = Bad News

I guess I should have noticed that the dearth of replies to all the problems reported must mean that
this doesn't work well.

But, WOW!

It REALLY doesn't work well.

So I got ndiswrapper off of the installation dvd, open suse 10.3, and wireless tools, etc.

I installed my xp driver via ndiswrapper.

It crashed the kernel when it was booting up. A bad modprobe.
I had to boot in safe mode and get rid of ndiswrapper.

By the way, I can't get the madwifi rpm's to install.
The 10.3 madwifi rpms on the madwifi site that are for suse 10.3 have the wrong kernel
version for suse 10.3!! (See my other post.)

This is junk.

Go to a terminal SU and run this command. " lspci "
And post the results here. We need to find out what chip set you have for sure.

Sounds like you are lost and frustrated. Hang in there.

Go to a terminal SU and run this command. " lspci "
And post the results here. We need to find out what chip set you have for sure.

Sounds like you are lost and frustrated. Hang in there.
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5413 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)

You need to go here.
http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/x86_64/
You need the first one.
And you need the one containing "kpm" in the name and your kernel spec in the name.

To get your kernel spec enter this in a root terminal/console: uname -r.

But I also done a google search and your chipset might have some issues in linux.

You also could follow Swerdna Excellent Tutorial.

http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtowireless.html

Also I noticed you got a couple threads on the same thing.