Help Setting Up Wireless - Opensuse 11.1

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So I have followed all tutorials and everything appears to be there. I am not missing any drivers. however when i run sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig scan it returns this

andrew@linux-ank1:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig scan
scan No such device

however if i just run iwconfig without scan i get:

andrew@linux-ank1:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Now i have all of my wireless router information and my security key, etc. Wireless LAN: 61: None 00.0: 1070a WLAN
[Created at net.124]
Unique ID: AYEt.QXn1l67RSa1
Parent ID: y9sn.vFytBh39gX2
SysFS ID: /class/net/wlan0
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network interface
Model: “WLAN network interface”
Driver: “ath5k_pci”
Driver Modules: “ath5k”
Device File: wlan0
HW Address: 00:16:e3:af:8a:4c
Link detected: no
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #28 (WLAN controller)

I suspect this problem to be unique with this install as ubuntu and fedora pick it up without a problem. However I have fallen in love with suse an would like to fix this minor problem. Any help appreciated

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However, I have done a slight bit more research and while madwifi didnt do the trick i impemented the GUI for ndiswrapper (kndiswrapper) and set the windows driver as primary an VOILA!

So sorry for my meaningless question. Just took a little more research

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ahager wrote:
> So I have followed all tutorials and everything appears to be there. I
> am not missing any drivers. however when i run sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig
> scan it returns this
>
> andrew@linux-ank1:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig scan
> scan No such device

The command should be /usr/sbin/iwlist scan

Larry

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Hey there,

You said that you “did a little more research” and figured out the problem…

I’m having the problem… I’m following all the tutorials, but to no avail - I can’t seem to connect to my wireless network.

I’ve tried the “Tracking down wireless problems” page, but when I tried to input the code that would enable channels 12, 13, and 14 in hopes of that solving the problem, I got “Permission denied.”

I don’t understand why that would occur, since I’m using the root account.

Anyway, how did you get your wireless to work?

I’ll give openSUSE a few more days, but if I can’t get it to work I’m uninstalling it and waiting for PCLinuxOS 2009 to come out, which I know will be better.

Help me out if you can!