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)

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.