Hi,
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Christopher Shanahan wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 16:51, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
It is the same chip and even the same revision as mine.
So why don't you simply try to discard ndiswrapper and start YaST2,
Network, Network card?
I think you misunderstood my post with another.
Yes. I had already thought so...
But nevertheless, Atheros WLAN is fine with 10.0.
I never used/tried
ndiswrapper. I knew my nic was supported via the madwifi driver, regardless
of the source of the driver (whether the driver came from the non-gpl kernel
rpm or the madwifi source package). I tried the non-gpl kernel rpm. I did not
try the madwifi source package -- as I said previously. I didn't have the time
to fix the errors in the make file. But I digress...
Be assured that SUSE kernel RPMs always have the superior quality.
This way you would not even need to say "modprobe ath_pci" - YaST2 would
do it for you.
And modprobing ath_pci didn't help. There is a button on this machine that
'activates' the wireless devices, both wlan and bluetooth. I've read where
others have managed to get both bluetooth and wireless working; however, most
have had problems due to that button (when to press the button during
installation/configuration). And, the installations that I've read about all
detailed Fedora Core and/or Ubuntu, not SUSE.
My Turion64 notebook has a "wlan on/off" button, too (for an "Ethernet
controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN
2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)" totally unusable under Linux). But
putting it "off" with the button does not hide the PCI device (still
visible with lspci) - it only inhibits the "antenna".
If your WLAN button really can hide the whole PCI device, you have to
press it during the BIOS phase before booting.
Do you have a light indicator for "WLAN off/on"?
For me, a push of the WLAN button does turn on the WLAN LED even under
Linux, but unfortunally there is no Linux driver for this Inprocomm
thingie.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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