[SOLVED] Not able to set Atheros WLAN card =(

[marianogedisman]

I've installed MadWifi and it's still not working. It shows as not configured on YaST. =(

AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (Not connected)
BusID : 0000:03:00.0
Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details.

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

with my Atheros-based cards I've had better luck with "ath5k"
included as part of "compat.wireless."

Download - Linux Wireless

[waterhead]

I have that exact same wireless on my Eee Pc 900. I just installed Fedora 10 on it and the wireless worked out-of-the-box. It is using the ath5k driver, and it is included in newer kernels. After an update, this is the kernel that I am using.

2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686

You can find the kernel version that you are using with this command.

uname -r

[marianogedisman]

marianox@linux-l1y8:~> uname -r
2.6.25.18-0.2-pae

[waterhead]

I'm not sure when the ath5k driver was first included in the kernel. You may best to install it using the compat-wireless package that tpl linked to.

[marianogedisman]

Okay. I'll try. Thanks.

[marianogedisman]

I'm not able to find 2.6.25 Kernel though.

[waterhead]

Do you mean the kernel source? It should be installable using YaST, I think the package is called kernel-source. If you can't find it in the YaST updtes, you can always get it here.

http://download.opensuse.org/update/...8-0.2.i586.rpm

[marianogedisman]

In Download - Linux Wireless I'm not able to see my Kernel.

[waterhead]

It has two available versions. One for kernels >= 2.6.27 and one for kernels <= 2.6.26. Since your kernel is 2.6.25.18-0.2, it is less than 2.6.26.

It does recommend using a newer kernel, so try and upgrade first. I know that Suse doesn't usually offer cutting edge kernels for upgrades, so you may not find anything newer.