Hi,
I have been using openSuse since 10.2 and I’ve constantly had the same problem with my wireless. Im using madwifi.
When I first boot up I can’t get a connection.
However when I reboot (sometimes 2 or 3 times) it works.
Here is the output from hwinfo --netcard:
10: PCI a03.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.310]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1a
Unique ID: rDrj.hioDloPJzGF
Parent ID: 6NW+.15wDFFx4xAC
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:0a:03.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:0a:03.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC”
Vendor: pci 0x168c “Atheros Communications, Inc.”
Device: pci 0x001a “AR2413 802.11bg NIC”
SubVendor: pci 0x1468 “AMBIT Microsystem Corp.”
SubDevice: pci 0x0418
Revision: 0x01
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 18 (no events)
Module Alias: “pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv00001468sd00000418bc02sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ath5k is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe ath5k”
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: ath_pci is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe ath_pci”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)