Here is some info I sent to another poster, but not to the whole board. Without being overkill, it is a little bit about what I have loaded on the machine and messages I see:
>From yast, here is what I have put on the system: madwifi-kmp-default 0.9.3.3_2.6.22.9_0.4-0.1 x86_64 madwifi 0.9.3.99-36 x86_64 When I boot, dmesg shows me this (among many other things) ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3) wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13) Also, someone suggested I get a PCMCIA card and skip trying to fix the internal adapter. Good idea. I had already bought a pcmcia card, only to subsequently discover that I don't have a pcmcia slot. I have an expresscard slot that looks exactly like a pcmcia slot. I guess that sounds stupid of me, and maybe it is. But I don't mind admitting stupidity. And someone else says this device isn't supported yet, which I suspected, but I know there are people here who can do almost anything. That's why I offered to pay. This is a work machine and I need wireless. But maybe it can't be done in this case, but I really do appreciate the responses. So if this card really can't be made to work. My other options are an expresscard or a usb card. Do any of you have any experiences or suggestions about either of those? Regards, James -----Original Message----- >From: "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 23, 2007 2:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help > >On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:06:05 am Jerry Houston wrote: >> Rajko M. wrote: >> > On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote: >> > ... >> > >> >> you need to install both the kernel >> > >> > Do you mean kernel sources, and compile package? >> >> The directions tell you to install (or update) madwifi, then figure out >> the "flavor" of your kernel, and install the module to match it. Mine's >> "bigsmp," for example. >> >> It didn't work for me, at any rate. When I was done installing (and >> rebooting), modprobe ath_pci didn't show any results, and I couldn't get >> the card to connect at all. Since I have the PCMCIA wireless card >> working fine, it doesn't matter much to me, but I'd be interested in >> finding how how it goes for James. >> >> Perhaps there's some non-obvious step that's needed, beyond what the >> opensuse.org web site tells us. > >I have some experience with Broadcom, but not at all with Atheros. >The broadcom requires firmware that will be loaded in wireless adapter. >Two years ago there was no way to get that and wireless didn't worked, now >there is and laptop works fine. I'm wondering if that is the same problem >with atheros. > >It would be good if James would accept some type of 'blind shots' and report >results. That method gives ideas, helps not to run in circles as many eyes >see more. > >-- >Regards, >Rajko >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
