Wireless assistance sought

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[LEFT]Hi I have a Toshiba A200, dual-boot XP-O/Suse 11 & KDE4, had no problems with install, have managed to tweak most of the functions, lan, Kmail & others to function satisfactory. I have been following the forums on the various fixes here & there so to speak for my wireless. I’m a novice with linux OS especially the command prompts etc, am a whiz around Windows.

I have tried most of the forum fixes as I understood them, could see the wireless, but cannot configure, it simply says “kernel device (ethO, wlanO) not present… mostly caused by missing firmware”.

I have tried suggested options on Novell homepages etc but still to no avail yet, details as follows:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4353] (rev 14)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7106
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at f0700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Kernel modules: ath5k

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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Have you looked here?
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless - openSUSE

I read in there:
You will need to install madwifi hal (>0.10.5.6, check with modinfo ath_hal), and then blacklist ath5k. Reboot, and it should work.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I tried Ndiswrapper, followed instructions & all was going well until the stage when i loaded net5211.inf drivers. I went ndiswrapper -l, Output was ‘invalid driver’, also tried blacklisting ath5k ‘permission denied’.
I will have a look and get back.

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have you tried the madwifi drivers ?

Andy

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Hi am currently looking at Madwifi-0.9.4-1.src.rpm, I think this may be a compatible version with my kernel, will post the outcome of that trial.

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I installed nadwifi 10.5.6 etc,

  1. modprobe ath_pci >> output “FATAL: Module ath_pci not found”
  2. modprobe ath5k >> output nothing
  3. modprobe ath5k_pci >> output as number 1 above.

Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Thanks

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caf4926 & deltaflyer44 - I wanna convey my utmost appreciation to you both for the assistance in my quest as a Linux-Newbie to get my wireless up and running. In fact I tried 2 other drivers on the site before hand.

I used drivers (link) http://madwifi.org/suse/11.0/i586/madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.4_2.6.25.5_2-1.i586.rpm
as well as the Howtos to get it up and working, I most likely downloaded the wrong ones prior.

Thanks again

Foster:

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Excellent, glad you got it sorted, now enjoy :slight_smile:

Andy