Newbie help

Derfo · 02-16-2005, 11:38 PM

I just installed Suse 9.2 on my HP nc6000. Everything seems to work fine except the wireless piece. I have tried numerous things but cannot get it to work for the life of me.

I have followed the steps outlined in this thread (linuxquestions.org/questions/history/252792) but to no avail.

When the system is booting up, I get this error....

ath0 (dhcp) no IP address yet waiting
.
..
eth0 gets an IP

waiting for mandatory devices
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ath0 interface could not be set up failed
Setting up service network failed

I have Kwifimanager and it keeps reporting that "No Interface found".

Can someone help?

TIA.

RanDrake10 · 02-17-2005, 07:08 AM

What wireless driver are you using? Try typing " lspci " then " lspci -n " in a terminal, and get the output for your wireless. You might be able to use linuxant or ndiswrapper. Your wireless should show up as " wlan0 ". Some suse require 2 extra lines at the end of /etc/sysconfig/network/ifconfig-wlan0 about DHCP, don't remember exactly but it is on suse's site.

Derfo · 02-17-2005, 09:56 AM

Filtering output relevant to Atheros wireless chipset.....

Output to lspci
0000:02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Output to lspci -n
0000:02:04.0 Class 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)

Derfo · 02-17-2005, 10:02 AM

About the driver using DeviceManager:

Hardware is Compaq AR5212 802.11abg NIC
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ath_pci is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath_pci"

RanDrake10 · 02-17-2005, 04:17 PM

Try adding the following lines in your '/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0' file :

DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'

This should obtain IP by DHCP on boot.