Wireless With Suse 10.3

Hi All,
I just started with Linux, and as such I decided to have my machine with dual boot, XP and Suse. Everything seems to work fine except for the wireless card. where my machine is I only have wireless acess so I need to make it work. The card I have is a D-Link DWL-G520. I tryed to see if the card is there using Yast and the network card configuration module but it dies not seem to see it. the Card works perfectly in XP.
Can you Guys help?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
Luis

Everything seems to work fine except for the wireless card. where my machine is I only have wireless acess so I need to make it work. The card I have is a D-Link DWL-G520.[/b]

Which chipset? My wife has a D-Link DWL-G520, with a B3 chipset (atheros) and it works great. In her case, I just needed to install the madwifi rpms. Instructions are here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi

Note if you have an atheros chipset on this card, for openSUSE-10.3 you must:
1. have latest kernel provided/recommended by Novell/SuSE-GmbH
2. install madwifi rpm
3. install madwifi-kmp-<your kernel flavor>
4. in a konsole/xterm with root permissions type: modprobe ath_pci
5. then launch YaST >> Network Devices >> Network card, and configure your card.

You will need to obtain the updated kernel, and two madwifi rpms off of the internet.

Hi OldCPU,
Thank you for your help, your instructions worked very well, I managed to install the madwifi package and kernel, and now my wireless card is reconized and I can see it in YaST. I did the configuration of the card in YaST, but still I can not get any internet access. Is there a way to test if the network is there or not? something like looking if there are are networks around like in XP?
Thanks
Luis

Yes, right click on knetworkmanager icon in system tray, networks detected should appear there.

Alternatively you can open a konsole type su then enter root password, then:

iwlist ath0 scanning

ath0 I believe should be the device name for your card. You can check it with:

iwconfig


Oh, and Welcome!

Hi Jop,
Thank you very much, I will try that.
Is there anything else you think I need to do?
Could this be also a problem with the Firewall?
Best regards
Luis

but still I can not get any internet access.[/b]

Do you have a wireless router at home?

Is there a way to test if the network is there or not? something like looking if there are are networks around like in XP? [/b]

Like what? Whats XP ? ... serious ... I don't use XP with wireless. My wife does, but I don't.

I did ensure some apps were installed on my wife's PC's Linux partition, including:
- kdenetwork3-wireless
- wireless-tools
- NetworkManger-kde
- yast2-network
- kinternet (so I could enable device control for non-root user - be certain to select yast setting under network devices > network cards)
.... nothing special there, I think. The madwifi "just worked" with our home wireless network after configuring with YaST.

Ensure you get the encryption correct. That typically fools many newbies.

Hi OldCPU,
Is working, I do not know how but it is!!!
thank you for all the help.
Best regards
Luis

Hi All,
I am back at square one. Suse just downloaded some updates yesterday and one of them was for madwifi, following the update and consequent reboot, I can not get my wireless connection to work.
The card as been reconized as it is on my list of network cards, but it seems that the KNetworkManager can not see it or use it at all.
Can someone help me.
Best regards
Luis

download the updated madwifi from here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/...103_BRANCH_KMP/ see if that helps

Andy

Note if you have an atheros chipset on this card, for openSUSE-10.3 you must:
1. have latest kernel provided/recommended by Novell/SuSE-GmbH
2. install madwifi rpm
3. install madwifi-kmp-<your kernel flavor>
4. in a konsole/xterm with root permissions type: modprobe ath_pci
5. then launch YaST >> Network Devices >> Network card, and configure your card.

You will need to obtain the updated kernel, and two madwifi rpms off of the internet.
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So, I have Atheros AR5005G adapter. I download madwifi-0.9.4-0.1.r2598.el3.rf.i386.rpm but Yast says that I need other packages (look the attached file):
glibc-2.6.1-18.i686.rpm
bash-3.2-61.i586.rpm
gcc-4.2-24.i586.rpm
make-3.81-66.i586.rpm
perl-base-5.8.8-75.i586.rpm
But when I install this packages and try to install madwifi again Yast says again tht he need these packages.

I try to install madwifi with tar.gz archive. But in this case after
# tar -xvzf <package name>
when I write ./configure in the console it says :
there is no such directory or file (or something like taht).

Where is my mistake?