I am a beginner in Linux, and recently changed to OpenSUSE from Kubuntu on my Asus F2HF notebook. My problem is that my Wlan what worked with Kubuntu, works not with OpenSUSE so far.
It says that it is unable to configure it because “kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present.” And suggest that this maybe caused by missing firmware. I tried to search firmware for my card without result. I tried to install all firmware package I found, without result.
All I know about my wlan is the name YaST2 shows:
AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Adapter
Whenever you have a problem like this, you should open a terminal and enter the
command
dmesg | less
This will let you see the messages that have been logged since bootup. If you
don’t know less, page up/down and the up/down arrow keys will move you through
the listing. The space bar will get you a new page and q will quit. Look through
the listing looking for messages that pertain to your wireless. If there is
missing firmware, it will show up there.
Hello, I’m new to openSUSE 11.0, installed it on my MSI notebook,
and now everything works meanwhile except the
AR242x802.11abg wlan.
ok, I followed the instructions to install the madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 driver I found on forum.ubuntuusers.de:
Problem: them make command produced the following output:
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-pae/build/.config does not exist… Schluss.
@xerxes22
You would be better starting your own topic. Your problem is different from the OP. Having your own topic would ensure it gets a response which should help
I found nothing about my wlan card - I mean I found in the dmesg listing my ethernet , but simply no any mentioning of the wireless…
The only interesting lines I found were these:
ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x400-0x41f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBO [0x400-0x40f]
ACPI: Device needs an ACPI driver
There was a suggestion in the list: “ACPI: If a device doesn’t work, try “pci=routeirq”. If it helps, post a report”