Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help
- From: James Gardner <jg189@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:14:11 -0500 (EST)
Here is some info I sent to another poster, but not to the whole board. Without being overkill, it is a little bit about what I have loaded on the machine and messages I see:
From yast, here is what I have put on the system:
madwifi-kmp-default 0.9.3.3_2.6.22.9_0.4-0.1 x86_64
madwifi 0.9.3.99-36 x86_64
When I boot, dmesg shows me this (among many other things)
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
Also, someone suggested I get a PCMCIA card and skip trying to fix the internal adapter. Good idea. I had already bought a pcmcia card, only to subsequently discover that I don't have a pcmcia slot. I have an expresscard slot that looks exactly like a pcmcia slot. I guess that sounds stupid of me, and maybe it is. But I don't mind admitting stupidity.
And someone else says this device isn't supported yet, which I suspected, but I know there are people here who can do almost anything. That's why I offered to pay. This is a work machine and I need wireless. But maybe it can't be done in this case, but I really do appreciate the responses.
So if this card really can't be made to work. My other options are an expresscard or a usb card. Do any of you have any experiences or suggestions about either of those?
Regards,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Dec 23, 2007 2:48 AM
To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help
On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:06:05 am Jerry Houston wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote:
...
you need to install both the kernel
Do you mean kernel sources, and compile package?
The directions tell you to install (or update) madwifi, then figure out
the "flavor" of your kernel, and install the module to match it. Mine's
"bigsmp," for example.
It didn't work for me, at any rate. When I was done installing (and
rebooting), modprobe ath_pci didn't show any results, and I couldn't get
the card to connect at all. Since I have the PCMCIA wireless card
working fine, it doesn't matter much to me, but I'd be interested in
finding how how it goes for James.
Perhaps there's some non-obvious step that's needed, beyond what the
opensuse.org web site tells us.
I have some experience with Broadcom, but not at all with Atheros.
The broadcom requires firmware that will be loaded in wireless adapter.
Two years ago there was no way to get that and wireless didn't worked, now
there is and laptop works fine. I'm wondering if that is the same problem
with atheros.
It would be good if James would accept some type of 'blind shots' and report
results. That method gives ideas, helps not to run in circles as many eyes
see more.
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Regards,
Rajko
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