Hi,Im trying to get the wireless working on suse 11,I downloaded madwifi-hal,on my other distro,but when i type make it says theres no make file?this worked fine on ubuntu!wireless is my only connection to the internet!so i need to get it working on suse!
is there an rpm for madwifi?i have an atheros chipset,on an acer aspire.do i need some kind of build tools?
any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Please.
Rick
madwifi rpm’s can be found here Index of /suse/11.0
Andy
See Getting Madwifi.
Well i tried the rpms and they didnt work,they where only 115 kb?
madwifi is at least 24 mb,i have the package i just want to build it!:(any other ideas?now im lost!!
S.O.S
Rick:\
rixtr66 wrote:
> Well i tried the rpms and they didnt work,they where only 115 kb?
> madwifi is at least 24 mb,i have the package i just want to build
> it!:(any other ideas?now im lost!!
What errors did you get? Did you use ‘sudo rpm -ib <rpm-name>’? The BINARY
RPMs will not be as large as 24 MB. Only source would be that large.
You need to install make and the compiler packages in order to compile the
madwifi sources.
Do you have a CD or a DVD installation media? If DVD, the stuff you need will be
on it. Use YaST => Software => Software Management and search for “make”, select
it, then search for “gcc”, select it, and finally select “accept”. There may be
other packages needed, but those are the two main ones.
Larry
ok thanks that was it.im used to having make available automatically.now that i have installed that i made the package,
but still no wireless…hmmm.let me check the kernel version
and make sure it hasnt changed.i installed a whole bunch of other stuff while i was at it.3.9gb to be exact.be back later.
Rick
well i successfully built madwifi0.10.5.6.
I did iwconfig and it shows up as atho,yaylol!
however after configuring the card i still cant connect.
i get the wireless networks around me but no connection manager?
sorry im used to using wicd,and gnome im using kde right now.
and im not familiar with kde setup for wireless,i hope youll excuse my ignorance!>:(,thanks for the help to all!!!
now what???
Peace.
Rick
Well i managed to install wicd,and am currently on a very slow network.wicd will onlylet me connect to this network?
this is the first time ive experienced problems with wicd.
it shows the network i want to connect to,its my landlords wireless
he gave me the key for free!anyway i put the key in this network;Ham wiFi,and ticked the connect automatically box.
its a wpa passphrase.but wicd keeps connecting to state street internet?how can i fix this?
any help would be appreciated!!
Rick
Start with the router & find all the wireless info or set it up; then, the Yast > Network Device info on every page & tab must match.
do it with firewall & wep/etc off 1st & get it working then turn them on one-by-one;)