Re: [opensuse] wireless still doesn't work in suse 11 RC1



I can confirm that as the OSS 11 RC1 KDE Live CD worked out of the box with my Atheros 5212 wireless PCI card.

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-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:04 AM, John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The key line is:

This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See
dmesg output for details.

You shouldn't need firmware for the atheros cards. Especially the
5212 since the new ath5k module supports it.
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