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Ok I am installing Suse 10.3 on this lap top for my friend. I found that she was using a athreros wireless card and installed the madwifi driver from this ...
  1. 01-14-2008 #1
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    Help Configuring Wireless Card Suse 10.3

    Ok I am installing Suse 10.3 on this lap top for my friend. I found that she was using a athreros wireless card and installed the madwifi driver from this site: Atheros madwifi - openSUSE. I installed the correct driver and typed in modprobe ath_pci in my terminal. No errors, or anything for that matter came up so I assumed it was detected. Now my wireless still doesn't work. I need a Ethernet cable still, what did I do wrong? what do I do now? can someone help?
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    Did you do the step where you are supposed to enter details of your wireless connection in NetworkManager after you have done "modprobe ath_pci"?
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    No I don't think I did that could you please walk me through the steps to do this? And how do I know if the driver installation has worked or not? The light for the wireless card hasn't even came on or anything, is my system even acknowledging that its there?
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    I don't use that type of card myself (I use ralink based ones because they are supported out of the box on most distros), so I can't give specific details about what you need to do. The instructions on the link you posted say that after installing the driver, you should do
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    After that you should then click on the network manager applet on the panel and use it to enter details of your wireless connection.
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    Dose the network manager let you scan for a signal like in windows? Also is the network manager you are referring to just the one that located on your tool bar?
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    The network manager is an applet in your panel (don't know if this what you are referring to as the toolbar). I think you can scan for networks or it will show you any networks it has found. There should be an option to connect to a wireless network, you can simply enter details of your wireless connection and network manager will try to connect to it.
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    For some reason my network manager says my card isn't even connected, but yet lspci says it is there?
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