Hello to all. I’ve managed to configure a wire-connection for Internet using Suse 11 on my Lenovo. However, despite much effort I can’t figure out how to set up a wireless connection. Hence, my post.
I’ve installed Madwifi for Suse 11 following instructions from this site: Atheros madwifi - openSUSE. I’ve also blacklisted “ath5k”. In YaST >> Network Devices >> Network Settings I’ve tried all kinds of configuration and can’t work it out. I should also mention that the Network Setup Method is set to Traditional Method with ifup. I also have a statically assigned IP address and subnet mask, and have selected “Enable Device Control for Non-root User Via Kinternet. The tabs Hostname/DNS and Routing are also configured.
From what I’ve gathered by reading other posts, I should provide some technical info that might help. Using the Terminal, here is some output that I get concerning my wireless card:
When I type in “/sbin/lspci” I get the following output:
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00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
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By putting in “/sbin/lspci -n” I get:
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00:19.0 0200: 8086:1049 (rev 03)
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03:00.0 0200: 168c:1014 (rev 01)
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When I type in the command “dmesg | less”, some of the output that I think is associated with my wireless card is:
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ath_hal: module license ‘Proprietary’ taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.9.4
ath_pci: 0.9.4
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wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xdf3f0000, irq=17
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ath0: no IPv6 routers present
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When I type in the command “/usr/sbin/iwconfig” I get the following:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:“MattCed” Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:33:72:74:45
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s Tx-Power:8 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-45 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:355580 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And when I type in the command “sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan”, one of the output is:
Cell 06 - Address: 00:17:33:72:74:45
ESSID:“MattCed”
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=52/70 Signal level=-43 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Finally, when I put in “/sbin/lspci -v”, I get:
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00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4345
Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at fe025000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter (AR5BXB6)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at df3f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k
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There you have it. Thanks for any help you can give me.
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