user
May 19, 2009, 11:55pm
1
OpenSUSE 11.1 on Live CD mode.
Toshiba Satellite with Atheros AR242x 802.11 Wireless card.
YaST Network Settings recognises the wireless card, and
I can see my network SSID and have entered WEP Key ok, but cannot connect to Internet.
Problem may be Device activation, as I do not know which option to choose.
‘At boot time’ presumably will not work because with Live CD the info will be lost on re-boot.
With ‘Manual’ option I cannot see how to activate device manually.
My wireless card works ok on PCLOS and mepis but I prefer OpenSUSE.
user
May 20, 2009, 12:03am
2
Obviously the device is activated, because it can see my access point router.
pdc_2
May 20, 2009, 5:00am
3
I am not a wireless expert, but to try to give you some answer:
it would seem you may need madwifi installed:
[Solution]Atheros AR242x - Suse11 - pae kernel - openSUSE Forums](http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/396325-solution-atheros-ar242x-suse11-pae-kernel.html )
so as you have not installed OpenSuse? that may be hard: if installing madwifi is the route you take, you look in the “Search” function of the OpenSuse forums, as the information may be spread across several posts