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#1

Hello from a newbie.
I have an Atheros ar9281 on a fujitsu siemens amilo pa 3553.
I cant understand why it dont work, because on vista find about ten essid
I used this driver ath9k - Linux Wireless

iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn 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

###########################################

iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 No scan results

Please help me. :’(

#2

The drivers aren’t good? I must try with madwifi?

#3

Have you had any luck yet with your Atheros ar9281 on a fujitsu siemens amilo pa 3553 ??

I ask because I am considering purchasing a new laptop, and the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo PA 3553 has made my consideration list of laptops. I am now searching for compatibility with Linux in each laptop.

I confess I am not familiar with the AR9281. I searched on the madwifi site for the AR9281, and came up with this:
news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for - madwifi-project.org - Trac

So I think you can try the ath9k or if that does not work, blacklist it (if necessary) and try the madwifi. There is an atheros/madwifi page here for openSUSE: Atheros madwifi - openSUSE

Please, what do you get on your Amilo PA 3553 PC when you type in a gnome-terminal or konsole:/sbin/lspci -nn
Could you post the line with information on your wireless? And if you can’t recognize that post the entire contents of that command?

Thanks!

#4

Forgive me if I answer to you only now, but read only now because I still have this problem: I know that the new kernel *.27 support the ath9k but doesn’t support the ATI hd 3400 video card.

/sbin/lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0) [1022:9603]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3) [1022:9607]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3a)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Confiuration [1022:1300] (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map [1022:131]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller [102:1302]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Contro [1022:1303]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control [1022:104]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller [1002:960f]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3400 eries [1002:95c4]
02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Seres] [1002:aa28]
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002a] (rev 0)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Exress Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device [197b:2380]
0a:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device [197b:2382]
0a:00.2 SD Host controller [0805]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device [197b:2381]
0a:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device [197b:2383]
0a:00.4 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device [197b:2384]

#5

I think the ATI HD 3400 is supported, not in the kernel, but with an ATI driver.

I note this page:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_89_linux.html

IMHO you just need to find someone who has packaged it for openSUSE.

OK, so you have a 168c:002a wireless device, which as you noted is an Atheros.

… I read in another thread on this forum that the atheros 168c:002a is not fully supported until the *.28 kernel: openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - Atheros wireles problem

The user in that thread seeking help claims they managed to the the atheros 168c:002a working with an *.25 kernel (I think - its hard to understand their post): openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - Atheros wireles problem

The entire thread is here: Atheros wireles problem - openSUSE Forums You may wish to consider joining that thread. You have the same atheros vendor-ID/device-ID noted in that thread, and lwfinger has probably forgotten more about wireless than I will ever know.

I’ve read of Ubuntu users getting this atheros to work with the ath9k kernel module.

#6

Now, I use the official drivers with opensuse 11.0 but it doesn’t work on new kernel.

Only kernel *.28??? :’(

Anyway the site provide drivers for kernels <*.26, but must recompile the kernel to enable the atheros card, and I tried to do it.
But, in menuconfig, doesn’t exist this line:
Device Drivers —>
[li] Network device support —>
[/li] Wireless LAN —>
<M> Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support
ath9k - Linux Wireless

#7

Reference your ATI Radeon 3400, I ended up purchasing a Dell Studio 15 that comes with the ATI Radeon 3450. I plan to install openSUSE-11.1 beta5 on it, in less than a week on it, so I’ll have a chance to “play” and learn 1st hand some of the limitations.

Reference your atheros wireless, I decided to stay away from the fujitsu siemens amilo pa 3553 because of hardware issues (such as the atheros wireless) and went for the Dell Studio 15, which has a different wireless device. So I stopped searching on this atheros (instead I am focused on trying to learn enough to get my Dell fully functional).

What you could do is raise a bug report on openSUSE-11.0. Or better yet, if your hard drive has 25GBytes of spare space or more, install openSUSE-11.1 beta5, and then if not functional under beta5 (which is quite likely the case) raise a bug report on openSUSE-beta5. In my case, I have allocated just over 50GBytes for beta software on my test PC. IMHO by adopting that “raising a bug report” approach, you have a better chance of having the devs look at this. Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE

#8

Ironner, take a look at this thread, where a user managed to get a similar atheros version working with openSUSE-11.1 beta5:
Acer Aspire 4730z wifi problems - openSUSE Forums

#9

Also the crossfire isn’t supported.
Thanks for the infos, I’m an your debtor :slight_smile: