I’m struggling to get my wireless connection working. During an install of the compat-wireless-kmp-desktop driver a warning occurs:
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktopp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx.ko needs unknown symbol_ieee80211_rx
and
Symbolieee80211_beacon_get
What can I do next to get this to work?
Running Opensuse 11.2 on Asus 1005PE.
What exact problem you have before installing the compat-wireless package?
AR9285 works out-of-the box without problem here with openSUSE 11.2.
Edit:
Post the wireless adapter section of
/sbin/lspci -vnn
need to see your PCI:ID
I understand that the AR9285 supposedly works out-of-the-box for opensuse 11.2. However, I have experienced the following problem:
I can identify and connect to various access points. When connected status is active. I can ping successfully to IP addresses. The difficulty arises when I attempt to use the internet via a web browser. I am told that the web browser is unable to connect to the server.
There are a few wireless access points that I can connect to and use a web browser - namely the wireless connection that I connected to during install.
I have downloaded updates,added the 11.2 wireless update repositories, and tried various madwifi drivers to no avail.
the command “/sbin/lspci -vnn” returns:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device [1a3b:1089]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fbff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-15-17-ff-ff-24-14-12
Capabilities: [170] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
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I am also having issues with the same card. The issues i am having are random disconnects and poor signal strength. My machine is a emachine e627
lspci=
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
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 RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
on fix I have found for the random disconnects is to turn off power management for the card with the following command under root:
iwconfig wlan0 → to verify power management is on
iwconfig wlan0 power off → turns power management off
exit 0 → ofcourse to exit root
This is the only issue that I have on this system and I would like to thank the developers and community for such a great OS. A once long time ubuntu user now full time openSUSE user!!
here is the rest of my information that i left out in the last post:
/sbin/lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c4] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [54] HyperTransport: UnitID Clumping
Capabilities: [40] HyperTransport: Retry Mode
Capabilities: [9c] HyperTransport: #1a
Capabilities: [f8] HyperTransport: #1c
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: d2100000-d22fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000cfffffff
Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: d1100000-d20fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000d0ffffff
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [110] Virtual Channel <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: d1000000-d10fffff
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [110] Virtual Channel <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391] (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 27
I/O ports at 8038 [size=8]
I/O ports at 804c [size=4]
I/O ports at 8030 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8048 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8010 [size=16]
Memory at d2306000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] SATA HBA <?>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d2305000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d2304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396] (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at d2306400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [e4] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00e0
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3c)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d2300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [f0] Secure device <?>
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 7000 [size=256]
Memory at d2200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Memory at d2100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e016]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d1100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-15-17-ff-ff-24-14-12
Capabilities: [170] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-76-b4-34-00-26-22-ff
Kernel driver in use: atl1c[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]
The other info aren’t that important actually. But now I know we have the same wireless chipset
Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
It might be access point specific issues, since you did mentioned that you can connect to some access point and use the web browser.
Sorry, I have no idea what went wrong here… But you can try a few things like:
opensuse 11.2 and knetworkmanager - openSUSE Forums
NetworkManager doesn’t configure default route and nameserve - openSUSE Forums