Problems With Network Card Post Install Of 10.3

I just installed 10.3 on a 32-bit AMD machine that has an on-board wired LAN chip that was enabled. The machine also has a Netgear wireless LAN card installed that shows up as a "Netgear AR5212 802.11abg NIC" under YaST on a SuSE 10.0 machine. The 10.0 machine indicates that it is using the module named ath_pci (note that this is from an x86_64 machine containing the same wireless NIC).

On the 10.3 machine YaST shows two entries in the Network Devices screen. One is listed as "Ethernet Network Card" with a busID of 0000:00:0a:0 and the message "Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device is not present." The other is a Giga-byte VT6102 [Rhine-II], which I assumed was the on-board wired LAN card. The puzzling thing is that I disabled the on-board LAN after installing 10.3, but the Giga-byte card didn't go away in YaST.

At any rate, how do I get my wireless card to work again under 10.3? Other than this the installation was flawless.

Thanks.

post the output of

lspci -v unless it's a usb device then it will be lsusb

& then we can see what we can do.

andy

post the output of

lspci -v unless it's a usb device then it will be lsusb

& then we can see what we can do.

andy
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Here you go. I'm attaching it as a text file because it's king of long and ugly.

In the meantime I stumbled upon another site that lead me to believe that I needed to install the package madwifi-kmp-default. I downloaded the latest i586 version from madwifi.org and attempted to install, but got a failed dependency error stating that it needed kernel(vmlinux) of the same version as kernel-default that is installed for it to work. So I seem to have run into another dead end with this.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

did you use the rpm's from here for madwifi http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/ ?
all you need are the madwifi & madwifi-kmp-default

andy

did you use the rpm's from here for madwifi http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/ ?
all you need are the madwifi & madwifi-kmp-default

andy
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I used the ones from madwifi.org, but as I stated above I got the Failed Dependency error for madwifi-kmp-default. The other one installed OK. Where is "from here" that you refer to? I did a search on this site and came up dry for OpenSuSE 10.3 rpms. I also searched openssuse.org and found links that took me back to madwifi.org and the files I already downloaded and gave me the error I mentioned previously. Am I resigned to building from the sources? If so, are there any pitfalls that I need to watch out for? Any idea of why the 10.3 rpms on the madwifi site don't work with a virgin vanilla installation of 10.3?

Boy, I'm just full of questions tonight.

Thanks for the help.

maybe adding madwifi to yast would resolve the dependencies.

sources to add

here's an excellent page of resources if you haven't already checked. also don't forget to edit your wlan when finished in network devices.

always a good place to look

if you can't get it going I am sure andy will have the answer, he help me get my broadcom up and running in no time, heck he even help me get my winmodem up and running. now that would be impressive if I had had prior linux experience, but I was a completely clueless noob who couldn't even upack and install a tar.gz file!!

maybe adding madwifi to yast would resolve the dependencies.

sources to add

here's an excellent page of resources if you haven't already checked. also don't forget to edit your wlan when finished in network devices.

always a good place to look

if you can't get it going I am sure andy will have the answer, he help me get my broadcom up and running in no time, heck he even help me get my winmodem up and running. now that would be impressive if I had had prior linux experience, but I was a completely clueless noob who couldn't even upack and install a tar.gz file!!
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Adding to YaST won't work because the network card isn't functional. I'll have to check out the other link though. it looks like I may be down to building from the sources. If I remember correctly, I think I had to do that for my 10.0 installation too. It's just been so long I can't remember. It looks like your second link may take me to some pretty good instructions on how to do this.

Thanks for the help.

I am sorry didn't understand you, you tried to install the rpms but had dependency issues? yet yast can't resolve these if you add it your repos? I thought you were trying to get your wireless up. I think I am confused. which of the wifi packages did you install first? ndiswrapper?

p.s. sorry about the opensuse links, didn't notice you had already checked, I was focused on the dependency issue.

I am sorry didn't understand you, you tried to install the rpms but had dependency issues? yet yast can't resolve these if you add it your repos? I thought you were trying to get your wireless up. I think I am confused. which of the wifi packages did you install first? ndiswrapper?

p.s. sorry about the opensuse links, didn't notice you had already checked, I was focused on the dependency issue.
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Somehow, I'm not communicating well. I have been attempting to get help from this forum and another and both are confused in the same way. Let me make clear the fact that the machine I am attempting to get up and running has a nonfunctional network interface at this point - in other words, no Internet connection. So getting YaST to do anything with network repositories would be futile.

My only option right now is to download file from another machine and sneaker net them to the ailing machine. I then try to install them using either rpm -Uvh from the command line or I have tried setting up the folder in which I placed the files as a local YaST repository and install them through YaST that way. Either attempt though yields the dependency problem. FWIW, I will have to check, but I don't think I have done anything with ndiswrapper.

Does this clear things up?