I’m sorry if I seem dumb but I am a noob to this whole Linux thing. I have always wanted to try it and finally got around to setting it up on my wifes laptop. I partitioned the drive and am also running Windows Vista (it sucks). Her wireless works fine with Windows but doesn’t work with openSUSE 11.1. I read the sticky post about what to do if your wireless doesn’t work. I have followed the steps but not sure what a lot of this means so I thought maybe someone might be able to tell me the next step. Here is what I have found.
After I typed this:
/sbin/lspci
I received this:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
After I typed this:
/sbin/lspci -n
I received this:
04:00.0 0200: 168c:001c (rev 01)
After I typed this:
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
I received this:
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
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
After I typed this:
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
I received this:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
With the ath5k driver loaded, I would expect ‘dmesg | grep ath’ to yield
something, but you should see something from
dmesg | grep -i atheros
You should also do the command ‘dmesg | less’. This will bring up the dmesg
output one page at a time. You can move through page by page with either “pg dn”
or the space key. You exit by pressing q.