Hi,

I built a new computer. Without any operating system in it when I run opensuse 13.1 every thing seems to work fine.

But after I install it, the wireless is not working. When I try to click on 'network' message says something like network not supported in this system.

I did notice when installing after I remove the installation disk and during rebooting every thing says 'ok' but one thing said 'failed', but it was so fast I could not see what it was.

At the moment I have temporarily installed mint 15 which is not ideal.

Please help! Thanks in advance.

Usually if you have some OS working installed you can gather information from it.

Find out what chip the wireless is running in Mint.

Then boot to the live OpenSuse cd/dvd/usb and see if the same is also being shown as a supported chip in wireless.

Things that have to happen to get wireless.(basic summary)

Driver available and not a wrong driver loaded.

Tcp/ip available to include dhcp or other means to connect out.

Wireless control. Some app or way to tell the wireless what to do.

User ability to have wireless connect.

Hi Jefro, thank you for your suggestion. Parden my ignorance, could you please tell me how to check the chip in Mint and opensuse? can I use the gui or can you tell me the command to use in the terminal.

Thank you

Best place to start in Opensuse would be this. http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Network_%28Wireless%29


Here are some links to generic stuff.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-f...river-chipset/

http://linux.die.net/man/8/lsmod

http://linux.die.net/man/8/lspci

I don't use mint enough to tell how to from gui. For Mint, use the term ubuntu instead or in addition to when doing web searches.
For example see a post like this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=862026


This also needs to be looked at with the last four lines of my prior post.

Hi Jefro, Thank you for your links.

Here are the results. Hope it makes more sense to you, because it doesnt to me. This is in mint 15. Will try and post results for opensuse as well.

This is what I got for lsmod

Module Size Used by
bnep 18036 2
rfcomm 42641 0
bluetooth 228619 10 bnep,rfcomm
uvcvideo 80847 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13056 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13202 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
snd_usb_audio 140685 1
videobuf2_core 40513 1 uvcvideo
snd_usbmidi_lib 24938 1 snd_usb_audio
videodev 129260 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
joydev 17377 0
arc4 12615 2
ath9k 149924 0
ath9k_common 14055 1 ath9k
coretemp 13355 0
ath9k_hw 413680 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
kvm_intel 132891 0
ath 23827 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
kvm 443165 1 kvm_intel
dm_multipath 22843 0
mac80211 606457 1 ath9k
scsi_dh 14843 1 dm_multipath
snd_hda_codec_realtek 78399 1
ghash_clmulni_intel 13259 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 36913 1
aesni_intel 55399 0
aes_x86_64 17255 1 aesni_intel
xts 12885 1 aesni_intel
snd_hda_intel 39619 5
snd_ca0106 44789 1
lrw 13257 1 aesni_intel
gf128mul 14951 2 lrw,xts
ablk_helper 13597 1 aesni_intel
snd_hda_codec 136453 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_ac97_codec 130268 1 snd_ca0106
cryptd 20373 3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
cfg80211 510937 3 ath,ath9k,mac80211
ac97_bus 12766 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_hwdep 13602 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 97451 6 snd_usb_audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_ca0106
snd_page_alloc 18710 3 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel,snd_ca0106
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30180 3 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61554 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29425 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 68876 28 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usb_audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,sn d_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_ca0106
ppdev 17073 0
soundcore 12680 1 snd
psmouse 95870 0
mac_hid 13205 0
mei 41158 0
lpc_ich 17061 0
serio_raw 13215 0
microcode 22881 0
parport_pc 28152 1
lp 17759 0
parport 46345 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
hid_generic 12540 0
usbhid 47074 0
hid 101002 2 hid_generic,usbhid
btrfs 785967 0
zlib_deflate 26885 1 btrfs
libcrc32c 12615 1 btrfs
dm_raid45 76725 0
xor 17116 1 dm_raid45
dm_mirror 21946 0
dm_region_hash 20820 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18529 3 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror,dm_raid45
i915 600351 2
ahci 25731 3
libahci 31364 1 ahci
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 49394 1 i915
drm 286313 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
r8169 67446 0
video 19390 1 i915


Here is the response for lspci | grep -i wireless

05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor (rev 01)

On Opensuse live the result for lsmod looks the same. It wouldnt let me get a result for lspci unless I sign in as root which dosent seem possible on a live run.

Wont beable to go on live if I install opensuse will try another way to install and get a result and post online.

The network Control panel does not look anything like the first picture in the link that you sent. http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

r8169 67446 0

It seems to suggest a realtek, very common. I'd assume then that your Opensuse has the module already loaded. Since it is same in both, I assume it is correct. That then leaves us to next steps. Meaning configure/enable wireless and ip on it.


See this post maybe now. http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...-connect/page3


In OpenSuse you usually have to go in an enable networking.

Live cd's often run as root. Some require you to run sudo pw to change password from blank to something.

That guide is just showing the pop up from the lower right part of the desktop. The author clicked on something there, maybe network.

I wanted to update my usb to 13 so I could see along with you on this. I didn't get to it.


If you dual boot, some odd wake issue may be there.

Hi Jefro, thanks again.

I have now downloaded the driver (r8168-8.037.00.tar.bz2) will remember to copy to a usb before I install opensuse.

I would never have guessed that r8169 67446 0 is the chipset, I would have thought that "05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor (rev 01)" is the one, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Could you please tell me how to Set the 13.1 install-DVD as a repository in Yast (step 5 in the instructions from the link you gave) and step 14 to remove it from the repo. Thanks.

Opppss!!!!!!!!!

You are right. I saw the rt and forgot you were working on wireless. This happens when you get old. The rt is onboard lan.

ath9k 149924 0
ath9k_common 14055 1 ath9k

Is this what I have to do ---- (copied from this site - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k )


Enabling ath9k

To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211 through make menuconfig when compiling your kernel. If you do not know what this means then please learn to compile kernels or rely on your Linux distribution's kernel. Below are the options you need to enable ath9k through make menuconfig.

Networking --->
Wireless --->
<M> Improved wireless configuration API
<M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

You can then enable ath9k in the kernel configuration under

Device Drivers --->[*] Network device support --->
Wireless LAN --->
Atheros Wireless Cards ---->
<M> Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support


Also Could you please tell me how to Set the 13.1 install-DVD as a repository in Yast (step 5 in the instructions from the link you gave) and step 14 to remove it from the repo. Thanks.