Wireles Help On Laptop

I am practically going mad trying to figure this out. I am installing SUSE 10.3 on a laptop and can't seem to get the wireless drivers working. I have tried to download the madwifi driver buy installing it through YAST but no luck. I installed the the madwifi from the directions at this site http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi typed modprobe ath_pci into a terminal and nothing happed. Nothing was detected the light from the wireless card didn't blink no errors nothing.

here is the output from lspci:

linux-g7j:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]
06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
06:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

Could someone please assist me on installing drivers that are compatible with this hardware and help me configure my wireless adapter to work with my wireless router? These last couple of weeks have been a nightmare with this laptop.

I am practically going mad trying to figure this out. I am installing SUSE 10.3 on a laptop and can't seem to get the wireless drivers working. .......Could someone please assist me on installing drivers that are compatible with this hardware and help me configure my wireless adapter to work with my wireless router? These last couple of weeks have been a nightmare with this laptop.
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Tried http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_ndiswrapper ?

Ndiswrapper works fine I havent encounter any problem with it yet... You got to have the windows driver for your card tho.

I installed the the madwifi from the directions at this site http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi typed modprobe ath_pci into a terminal and nothing happed. Nothing was detected the light from the wireless card didn't blink no errors nothing. .........snipped .......

06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

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In addition to installing madwifi, did you also install madwifi-kmp-<your kernel flavor> ?

Yes I did install madwifi-kmp-<default> (my kernel is default) but still nothing happened. Also I attempted to install ndiswrapper, in fact I used that exact link to help me do so. It still didn't help, Yast still says that my wireless card isn't even connected :S. However the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_ndiswrapper are for the AR5212 and my laptop is running the AR2413 could this have caused problems? Also why dose the network manager keep saying "not connected" but yet when I type lspci it detects it?

Yes I did install madwifi-kmp-<default> (my kernel is default) but still nothing happened. Also I attempted to install ndiswrapper, in fact I used that exact link to help me do so. It still didn't help, Yast still says that my wireless card isn't even connected :S. However the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_ndiswrapper are for the AR5212 and my laptop is running the AR2413 could this have caused problems? Also why dose the network manager keep saying "not connected" but yet when I type lspci it detects it?
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I think you almost get it there .... not sure tho

May know exactly which step in installing ndis you failed?

It's not connected as "not connected to the wireless network" since it's not working , it's not connected....

just like you pull off the ethernet and it's not connected but the NIC is still detected

Once it's working and you filled in essid and wep then it will be connected (after dhcp)...

what goes with the commands:

ndiswrapper -l
iwconfig

under root?