Connecting to wifi issues on atheros card

openSUSE 11.4 Kernel 3.0 ( I have faced the same with previous kernel versions too)
Hi I have a atheros card… with the following configuration

Hardware Class: network
Model: “Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)”
Vendor: pci 0x168c “Atheros Communications Inc.”
Device: pci 0x002b “AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)”
SubVendor: pci 0x17aa “Lenovo”
SubDevice: pci 0x30a1
Revision: 0x01
Driver: “ath9k”
Driver Modules: “ath9k”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN

I am unable to conenct the internet through it.

I have tried the following approaches
One is the GNOME 3.0 Network Manager I see wireless as an option but no networks are shown.

One of the solutions that I tried was rfkill
This was the output
rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Now, I also looked up the command line solution
The result is as follows
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
Cell 01 - Address: 00:15:70:C9:E2:40
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=42/70 Signal level=-68 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:“ION@Manipal-Indoor”
Bit Rates:12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000002c5d0f15e
Extra: Last beacon: 780ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0012494F4E404D616E6970616C2D496E646F6F72
IE: Unknown: 0106182430C8E0EC
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 0706494E20010D24
IE: Unknown: 0B050C00A43D09
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: AD0F00A0F80C0090006801000000000000
Cell 02 - Address: 00:15:70:C1:0D:C0
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:“ION@Manipal-Indoor2”
Bit Rates:12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000002c668b26c
Extra: Last beacon: 560ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0013494F4E404D616E6970616C2D496E646F6F7232
IE: Unknown: 0106182430C8E0EC
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 0706494E20010D24
IE: Unknown: 0B050900A43D09
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: AD0F00A0F809005900F300000000000000
iwconfig wlan0 essid NETWORK_ID key off
dhclient wlan0

But I am still unable to connect to the wireless

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As to your problem everything looks healthy. Did You try the YaST approach ?
Chapter

Best regards,
Greg

The only thing I do that you didn’t is give iwconfig the MAC address oF the router by adding


ap 00:11:22:33:44:55

to the iwconfig line.

You might retry the command line after going into Yast and giving control of the network to ifup.

On 08/17/2011 07:16 PM, bsilvereagle wrote:
>
> The only thing I do that you didn’t is give iwconfig the MAC address oF
> the router by adding
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> ap 00:11:22:33:44:55
>
> --------------------
>
> to the iwconfig line.

You only need to do this if there are two or more APs with the same ESSID and
you want to select one of them. In the usual case, the ESSID is sufficient to
select a single AP. In this case, the two APs are distinct.

What does the output from dmesg or /var/log/NetworkManager say about this issue?