atheros ar8131 driver for suse linux 9.1
 

Can someone please show me where to find atheros ar8131 driver for suse linux 9.1?

I tired to download the driver from this site but cannot download because when I click on the Agree button to start the download, the download does not start and it brings me back to the download page. I tried several times and the same thing happened.

I go to the second link on the search page and can now download the driver.
I am now trying to install the driver.
Thanks and let's hope I succeed in installing the driver.

Although I succeed in downloading the atheros ar8131 driver, and after extracting the files, there isn't a ./config and a make install files to begin with. Any advise to help with this problem please.

I just downloaded the driver, and there is a Makefile in the sources I downloaded. However, the archive was also damaged.

Maybe download your archive again, make sure it unpacks correctly (unpack it in a folder of its own, so you have all the files in one location) and then see if there is a Makefile.

It appears to me that the Makefile is not a standard one, but one intended for a Redhat system of some sort.

I haven't examined it really closely, but if you continue to have trouble, I'll have a closer look of nobody else has offered further help.

Sasha

Do you download AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.gz or Atheros AR8131 Chipset Driver for Linux Version: 1.0.1.0? I find that I cannot download Atheros AR8131 Chipset Driver for Linux Version: 1.0.1. and I can download AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.gz. I want to use the driver for Suse Linux 9.1. Please advise.

Right, the one I downloaded was the 1.0.1.6.tar.gz archive.

I went to this page: http://www.chipdrivers.com/download-get/785/191/36/

and selected the file: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.gz (which says it is 131k in size)

Then agree to that license stuff and presto, it downloaded.

I don't quite understand your last post, beyond what I just wrote; is that not the driver version you want?

I find the atheros ar8131 driver from this site, http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
AR81Family Linux Driver
AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.gz
131K
After extracting the AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.gz file,can you please show me the command from there on to install it.
Thanks.
Do I use the ./config or make install or makefile command.

If I remember right, there was no configure script in there, only a Makefile, so if that's the case, just use that.

I did use Makefile and post it onto the terminal but it won't run.
Any suggestion as to what I should do next?

Not sure what you mean. Typically to use a Makefile, you just navigate into the folder where the Makefile is, and type "make". This calls the `make` binary tool, which reads the Makefile and follows the instructions within.

Try that, and if it doesn't work (i.e. if it quits with obvious errors), please copy & paste ALL of the output produced after giving the `make` command, from your terminal into your next post, and maybe we can try to figure out why it isn't working.

If it *does* work, `make` should output a bunch of stuff to the screen and then stop, with no error messages. After this, you usually type `make install` -- HOWEVER: if you use `make install` you will have the driver installed, but your package manager will not know about it. What I would generally do in this sort of case, is use some means of creating a package of the driver, so that you can install it with your package manager. NOTE: It appears you are running Mandriva, which I have never used, so I can't instruct you in any way about how to make a package for Mandriva, as I have no idea.

You can manually install the driver also, simply by copying the finished driver module (the .ko file) out of the location where you compiled it, and sticking it into /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/drivers/somewhere-here.. and running the `depmod` command. After that, use the `modprobe` command to insert the module, and you would be now ready to configure your wireless.

Anyhow, as yet we don't even know yet if you can successfully build the driver using `make` (it might be missing dependencies, or be configured for some other Linux, or not compatible with your kernel, etc..), so please try that first and see how that goes.

Sasha

I have an acer laptop with atheros. Couldn't get it to work with a native linux driver, they all died at make.

Used NDISwrapper and downloaded the XP drivers from their site, worked flawlessly for me.

Thank you for your reply.
Actaully when I want to install this driver, it was for my ubuntu 8.10.
I did not succeed in installing the driver a few times. It even stopped my computer from booting. I have since formatted the ubuntu partition and install mandriva. Mandriva does not need this driver. I was just trying to see if the driver can run and install. May be I will try the Make command some other time if I happen to install ubuntu 8.10 again.
By the way, is this driver just for the wireless modem?

That driver is for one or more similar devices made by the same company, and/or containing the same chipset inside it.

Assuming you use the same wireless device with Mandriva as with Ubuntu 8.10, the reason you did not need it with Mandriva is because the driver is already included or available from the package manager with Mandriva, where maybe it was not available with Ubuntu 8.10

Sasha