wireless issues Compaq, Atheros card

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1

i have looked trough the forum and it appers to me that i have slightly difrent issue. (or i trouble with understanding)

Start with my system:
Compaq Presario A900
2 gb ram
1.86 intel dual T2390 cpu (hm appers to run att 800mhz. oh maby thats buz speed)
dual boot with Vista 32
and
OpenSuse 11.2 (i586)
KDE 4.3.1 “release 6”

Atheros. AR5001 Wireless Network
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

I instaled and got opensuse to work with cabel att my home. but dident have time to look more there.
got to momsplace and foundled litle and then kliking next to clock on the cabel connection and then i notised next to cabel connection it was an antenna.
wirless found it says, it had found mom’s Linksys. typed in the pw and it connected. so i pulled out the cabel and yeas the wireless worked.

dident think more of it.

i started looking for graphic drivers and photo software and other things, foundled in yast and so. dident realy manage the driver download but found settings on the default driver for graphics and managed to adjust it oki.
rebooted and some on and ofs a couple days, got some updates on opensuse. (automaticly)

now sadly i dont remember directly what i was doing, but had to reboot.
when pc was on again the wireless would not connect and the sign next to clock was gone, connected cabel and that works.

open yast 2 and find wireless. there it says NetworkManager has controll. i then rightklick the cabel ikon.
and found kontrollmodul. (my kde is in norwegian so i can miss on the names)
on wireless i do find mom’s network. it looks right but some how wireless are not active or not looking. dosent seem to be able to do much there.

i go back to yast2
on network overview i notice it is two wireless there one with driver and oki and one not oki and a cabel notice who is oki. the oki one is on dhcp. witch is good according to router.

in first there i changed to ifup. this gave me accses to the wireless settings for the one who is oki. but not the other.
i cant even delete this one. (i know sucky xplaination)

so i change back to NetworManager and the ikon come back next to clock. but only the cabel.

my gues is that input not ready is screwing up. i want to remove that and keep the other one.

Tho maby it has just been locked. but where to open again? dont remember but have heard a keypad combo for this.

any sugestions on where and what to locck for wud be nice.
but do remember im complete newbie on opensuse. and might need teaspoon aproch to geet to where the settings ar to be checked and do. how to and what to. lol my years of windows are in the way for me

2

I see this can be missunderstood. Bad choise of words.

I meen the computer been turned on and off sevral times. and also used the windows part.

When wireless did work it was stabile.

3

:frowning:

No sugestions.

looked more around but cant figure this out.
I tryed
a code : alias AR5001 wlan0

But didnothing acctuly it say not found.

Cant understand y i cant delete the xtra wireleess entry in suse.
I can only delete things that says oki on… anoying

4

Run these commands.

lsmod

lspci

What encryption are you using? WEP or WPA?
Are you still using networkmanager?

5

Sorry so late been working much

its on networkmanager yeas. did tried on yast but couldent do anything.

wireless router is on WPA-Personal

resolt on lsmod cant seem to locate the wireless card there

Tjukken@linux-dzvm:~> lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfs 342192 0
lockd 81228 1 nfs
fscache 43832 1 nfs
nfs_acl 3264 1 nfs
auth_rpcgss 43296 1 nfs
sunrpc 223936 5 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
ip6t_LOG 6468 6
xt_tcpudp 3136 2
xt_pkttype 1632 3
ipt_LOG 6276 6
xt_limit 2692 12
snd_pcm_oss 51616 0
snd_mixer_oss 19072 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 64752 0
edd 10472 0
i915 248968 1
drm 184896 2 i915
i2c_algo_bit 6884 1 i915
af_packet 23424 2
cpufreq_conservative 8396 0
cpufreq_userspace 3332 0
cpufreq_powersave 1568 0
acpi_cpufreq 9452 0
speedstep_lib 5092 0
ip6t_REJECT 5472 3
nf_conntrack_ipv6 22036 4
ip6table_raw 3008 1
xt_NOTRACK 1632 4
ipt_REJECT 3168 3
xt_state 2208 8
iptable_raw 2848 1
iptable_filter 3616 1
ip6table_mangle 4160 0
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 2560 0
nf_conntrack_ipv4 11688 4
nf_conntrack 85660 5 nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_NOTRACK,xt_state,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4 2112 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
ip_tables 13392 2 iptable_raw,iptable_filter
ip6table_filter 3616 1
ip6_tables 14832 4 ip6t_LOG,ip6table_raw,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
x_tables 19524 11 ip6t_LOG,xt_tcpudp,xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,xt_NOTRACK,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6_tables
fuse 74268 5
loop 17228 0
dm_mod 84804 0
epl 171660 0
snd_usb_audio 95968 0
iTCO_wdt 12164 0
sr_mod 17572 0
ath 9472 0
snd_usb_lib 21280 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 26176 1 snd_usb_lib
8139too 34372 0
uvcvideo 66288 0
videodev 39456 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 16004 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_seq_device 8620 2 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
8139cp 25408 0
snd_hda_codec_conexant 34656 1
sg 32884 0
pcspkr 2784 0
joydev 11232 0
i2c_i801 12788 0
cdrom 40768 1 sr_mod
iTCO_vendor_support 3876 1 iTCO_wdt
snd_hda_intel 31584 2
video 24600 1 i915
battery 12836 0
cfg80211 147336 1 ath
wmi 7720 0
rfkill 22772 1 cfg80211
button 6608 0
ac 4964 0
snd_hda_codec 94688 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 8708 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 96324 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 25960 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 75236 17 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 10600 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp 31012 1
ext4 359524 2
jbd2 95584 1 ext4
crc16 1952 1 ext4
fan 5028 0
processor 50576 3 acpi_cpufreq
ide_pci_generic 4036 0
piix 6760 0
ide_core 122572 2 ide_pci_generic,piix
ata_generic 4836 0
thermal 21084 0
thermal_sys 18344 4 video,fan,processor,thermal
Tjukken@linux-dzvm:~>
Tjukken@linux-dzvm:~>

6

On lspci
i got this.

here i se the wireless on 01:00.0

Tjukken@linux-dzvm:~> /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Tjukken@linux-dzvm:~>

7

I know the laptop. The wireless works out of the box on 11.2, so it’s somewhere else, probably the network manager.

Which KDE4 version are you on?

You could install wicd from Software.openSUSE.org
Worked for me when the network manager would not.

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I cant go on OpenSuse now. I look into that when i can.

I think it is strange that it first worked, and thenn stoped to work.
But also dislike that in yast2 i se two wireless one not propper innstaled.
In my mind this looks like a conflikt. But i can not remove it…

9

I seems to be KDE 4.3.1 “release 6”

I wil try wicd.

10

Wicd dosent find my wireless.
I think its something driver or install fault here, even my Nokia finds this wireless network.

11

Sligthly embarresing.
I found the problem. It was betwin the screen and chair.

I was foundling in wicd prefrenses and discovered that it dident say anything on the wireless there.
So i simply typed wlan0.

Then when i did that i noticed in Yast that the entry of wireless card not ready, disapered.
And when i refreshed wicd i found sevral wireless points.
Unf im att work and dont have any keys to these. But since it is searching and finding networks i take it that the problem is solved.

Want to thank evryone for inputs.

ps. is it a “solved” button here?

12

Hrmf

i was to quick there :frowning:

It now finds wireless and so.
but wont connect.

says can not geet ip.

it is on wpa2
encryption aes

13

After 6 atempts att mom’s place it decided to work.

Wat it qas now im not sure.
it founded all networks in the building. connected, but got ip error.

now after sevral atempts it got ip.

can the router react since the wireless card is mostly conected from vista. and now its opensuse?

anywhy seems to be oki. just need a few atempts for ip addy.

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On 01/25/2010 09:56 AM, Hillebilly wrote:
>
> After 6 atempts att mom’s place it decided to work.
>
> Wat it qas now im not sure.
> it founded all networks in the building. connected, but got ip error.
>
> now after sevral atempts it got ip.
>
> can the router react since the wireless card is mostly conected from
> vista. and now its opensuse?
>
> anywhy seems to be oki. just need a few atempts for ip addy.

There have been some reports of problems when the AP is slow to react to DHCP
requests, particularly when to DHCP Lease time is long. It has nothing to do
with the Windows/Linux mix of DHCP Clients; however, Windows will just wait
forever without timing out the way Linux does.

15

Oh oki.
So basicly for now its just to retry.

Atleast it meens that my wireless is now working.

now i just have to figure out the webcam :stuck_out_tongue: then se if i find skype or similar

16

i uninstaled wicd.
and now it seems to connect litle faster, and hold stabil.
It be coinnecting trough networ manager i belewe.

hm. litle good thing this. foundling with this wireless thingy, makes me understand litle more og opensuse.