Re: Help with ATMEL Wireless on SuSe 9.1 (Was: Help/Question SCM2662 (USB - atmel) wireless card on SuSe 9.1)

From: David Haggett (news-spam_at_haggett.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:20:38 +0100

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:52:30 -0500, Diego J. Diaz wrote:

> Hi! A few days back, I asked for some help installing the at76c503 driver
> under SuSe 9.1 on a machine where I dualboot Mandrake 10 and SuSe 9.1.
> Mandrake recognized everything out of the CD (even the Wireless card). The
> card is an USB SMC2662 card. Thanks to "Gulli" I was finally able to install
> the driver. Now, I can't connect to the network for some reason. In general,
> the error from the /var/log/messages is:
>
> susewireless1 kernel: wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> I have tried everythings, "cloned" the settings from Mandrake, etc and can't
> get it to work. If I look at Mandrake's iwconfig output vs SuSe, they are
> the same. ANy pointers here will be very gratefully appreciated.
>

Sorry, Diego, I think I must have missed your earlier posting, and could
have saved you some effort.

Suse 9.1 provides the Berlios driver, so you probably didn't need to go
to the effort of downloading the latest (CVS) version from the berlios
site. I'm a little confused as to why it seems to be loading the driver
from your home directory, but I guess that's something to do with the way
you installed it.

Have you downloaded and installed the firmware files from
http://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/ ? The SuSE implementation needs external
firmware to load the driver, and because of licencing concerns they don't
provide it directly. It's available as an update through YOU or you can
get an RPM direct from the site if you prefer (I did).

Hope this helps. 

-- 
David Haggett
Linux user since 01/01/2003
Email: david<at>haggett<dot>demon<dot>co<dot>uk

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