Wireless Woes : 10.2 Suse : cannot see wireless device (ath0)
Hello,
I am having a very (very) difficult time getting the wireless to work on my laptop. It is a Compaq Presario F762NR, running Suse 10.2. It does not see the ath0 (Atheros device) # iwconfig ath0 ath0 No such device # ifconfig ath0 up ath0: unknown interface: No such devic I know there are many threads on this, and I have followed many of them and cannot get it working. (My wired device came up no problem as soon as I downloaded the driver (nVidia) and rebooted. I rebooted after each of the steps below, and also did them all first and then rebooted, but it did not work I used Yast Network Manager to configure the (onboard) controller In Network Manager it sees : Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet controller Hewlett-Packard Company WLAN controller (In the Network Manager wireless card config, I tried setting the "Device Activation" to "manual","upon cable plugin","at boot up") I have downloaded the madwifi drivers (madwifi, madwifi-kmp-default). Here is what I can see : # lspci | grep Eth 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01) # lsmod | egrep 'Module|aes|ath|wlan|sca' Module Size Used by ath_pci 96672 0 wlan 199236 1 ath_pci ath_hal 195792 1 ath_pci # rpm -qa | grep -i mad madwifi-0.9.3.3-0.1 madwifi-kmp-default-0.9.3.3_2.6.18.8_0.7-0.1 #iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:43:89:35 inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01) priceless:/home/jprice # lspci | grep Eth 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01) |
still cannot see my wireless device : is all hope lost ?
someone told me to do a modprobe ath_pci which I did but I still cannot see my wireless device.
Btw : the jumber on the card is AR5BXB63, so probably an Atheros 5xxx series ? I know it works because it works under Windows/Vista I really appreciate the help. |
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