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I have recently upgraded to OpenSuSE 11 and have found that my wireless no longer works.
I have madwifi and ndiswrapper installed.
In the yast control centre it says my wireless adapter is not configured because the kernel device is not present
the output from dmesg is as follows
ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
printk: 6 messages suppressed.
ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5
If the kernel was upgraded, you may need to compile a new driver module. I don't use OpenSuse, so someone else will have to provide details on how you would do that.
BTW, madwifi and ndiswrapper are basically mutually exclusive - you only want one or the other. If your wireless NIC works with madwifi, use that and forget about ndiswrapper.
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