wireless install on susue 10.3

[georgeski]

I am attempting to install the madwifi driver (atheros wireless) on my dual boot suse 10.3 laptop, and have had partial success.
I am able to modprobe (ath_pci), and the YAST hardware utility recognizes the wireless card in my system. However, when i go to network devices and try to configure the card, the system indicates that there is no kernel device present and I can't configure. Being a newbie, I have followed suggestions from online sources to get to this point, but am unable to go further. Any suggestions for creating the kernel device,. greatly appreciated.

Georgeski

[waterhead]

Maybe your wireless doesn't use the madwifi driver. Post the output of this command:

lspci -nn

[georgeski]

00:00.0 RAM memory [Class 0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Memory Controller [10de:0444] (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [Class 0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 LPC Bridge [10de:0442] (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus [Class 0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 SMBus [10de:0446] (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor [Class 0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 SMU [10de:0447] (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 USB Controller [10de:0454] (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 USB Controller [10de:0455] (rev a3)
00:06.0 Ethernet controller [Class 0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet [10de:0450] (rev a3)
00:07.0 Audio device [Class 0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio [10de:044a] (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge [Class 0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI bridge [10de:0449] (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface [Class 0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 IDE [10de:0448] (rev a1)
00:0a.0 IDE interface [Class 0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 SATA Controller [10de:045d] (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [Class 0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:045b] (rev a1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [Class 0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI Express bridge [10de:045a] (rev a1)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [Class 0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI Express bridge [10de:0458] (rev a1)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge [Class 0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI Express bridge [10de:0459] (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [Class 0200]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [Class 0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS [10de:0427] (rev a1)
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [Class 0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
07:05.1 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
07:05.2 System peripheral [Class 0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 12)
07:05.3 System peripheral [Class 0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
07:05.4 System peripheral [Class 0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)

[waterhead]

Well that isn't the problem.

I found one post that says you need to use the latest SVN version of madwifi:
Atheros AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express - LinuxQuestions.org
Compatibility/Atheros - madwifi.org - Trac

Remove all installed versions of madwifi using the package manager (YaST?). Or if you have installed a version downloaded from madwifi, go back to the folder that you compiled and installed it from and run this command:

make uninstall

In fact, if you had two versions installed, that could be a problem. Also read through the bug ticket on this:
#1192 (Hardware Support: AR5007* (AR2425 chips)) - madwifi.org - Trac

[georgeski]

Thanks Paul I'll try both suggestions. I originally installed madwifi from madwifi using make install ..I wasn,t successful ...the make gave back an error (don.t recall it.....then i found a routine using Zypper and the install appeared to be complete. I have to backtrack and uninstall the make as well as figure out how to undo the Zypper routine. I'll try..my skills are limited, and i,ll report back...thanks again

George

[waterhead]

You most likely only have to uninstall madwifi through Zypper. If you got errors when trying to install from source, then it didn't install.

You may also run into the same errors when trying the SVN. Make sure that you have your kernel sources installed through Zypper. Programs also needed are gcc make and perl.
Requirements - madwifi.org - Trac

[georgeski]

after uninstalling i ran the Zypper routine and got this error:

Problem: madwifi-kmp-default cannot be installed due to missing dependencies
There are no installable providers of kernel(default:vmlinux) == 7478eee6b17e0a6e for madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.i586[madwifi]
=== madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.i586[madwifi] ===
madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.i586[madwifi] will be installed by the user.
bash-3.2-61.i586 is needed by madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.i586[madwifi] (/bin/sh)
kernel-default-2.6.22.5-31.i586 is needed by madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.22.16_0.2-0.1.i586[madwifi] (kernel-default == 2.6.22.5-31)

any hints what this means

I chose the ignore option and attempted the install...have the same problem, that is,
when i try to configure the wireless i can't and the system indicates the kernel device is not present

george

[waterhead]

It looks as if you don't have the repositories configured. But it also looks as if you updated the kernel, so it must have worked before.

I didn't want you to install madwifi with Zypper, just remove it. You do need to install the kernel source, and the other programs needed, before you can compile the SVN version of madwifi. It is the SVN version that you seem to need.

If you can't get the kernel source that matches your kernel, then maybe update the kernel to one where the source is available.

[georgeski]

I will try to do as you suggest, have some other things to do right now, but will continue this process later.

thanks again