James Gardner wrote:
> I have tried both using the madwifi source in yast, and downloading and
> compiling my own madwifi. Neither worked for me. I tried compiling again
> this AM after the suggestion came in, just to make sure I got the latest
> version. But no change.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
James,
Did you ever get the wireless working? The developer at madwifi is
really good about helping as well. With Atheros, you will be using
madwifi and wpasupplicant if you are using wpa-tkip. On opensuse 10.3
both work great with knetworkmanager. I have a toshiba P35 with atheros
chipset and it took a little work, but wireless works better on Linux
than on windows. Here is the basic setup after you have madwifi loaded:
# From the command line as root, check that ath0 station is created:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"rbpllc" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1C:10:4B:2E:CD
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:6B2E-5834-1B7A-1BA3-FDAA-484B-6E84-3B55
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=44/70 Signal level=-48 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:12662 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
# if NO ath0, then Create the station
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
# Check with iwconfig
iwconfig
# Bring up the interface
ifconfig ath0 up
# Insert the scanning module
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
# Scan for nets
wlanconfig ath0 list scan
# or for all modems
iwlist ath0 scan
# if key required
iwconfig ath0 key <yourkey>
# Connect to the AP
iwconfig ath0 essid "eddie"
# Get IP address
dhclient -s <server> ath0
# or
dhcpcd ath0
# For fixed IP
ifconfig ath0 <IP address> netmask <netmask> up
# To set up WEP (very simple)
iwconfig ath0 key yourhexkey
# To set up WPA config
wpa_passphrase "your_ESSID" "Some_Decent_PassPhrase_of_up_64_Characters"
>> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and add the lines into the network section
created above:
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
# proto=WPA
proto=RSN
Uncomment the proto=WPA line (and comment out the RSN line) to enable
WPA. Leave as is for WPA2 (stronger encryption).
After the basic setup, make sure your ifup-ath0 file is setup
correctly. Mine works like this:
[08:27 Rankin-P35a/home/david/linux/RPMS] # cat
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ath0
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
BROADCAST=''
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='10'
IPADDR=''
MTU=''
NAME='Askey AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor'
NETMASK=''
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='ifplugd'
USERCONTROL='yes'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='psk'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CA_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH=''
WIRELESS_EAP_MODE=''
WIRELESS_ESSID='** PUT YOUR ESSID HERE **'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID=''
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='** PUT YOUR PSK HERE **'
If you are using WPA-TKIP, your wpa_supplicant.conf should look
something like this:
update_config=1
#run directory (can set group as well)
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
#set to 1 if frames dropped
eapol_version=2
# default 1 (0,1,2)
ap_scan=2
network={
# disabled=0
id_str="**your label for the interface**"
ssid="**yourSSID**"
# mode=0
priority=4
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
auth_alg=OPEN
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
proto=WPA
proto=RSN
psk=**LONG STRING OF STUFF CREATED BY wpa_passphrase**
}
** put other network blocks here for (homeESSID, workESSID, etc.)
Finally, if you are using KDE, install kneworkmanager. Selecting access
points then is just a simple click to select. I hope this helps, good luck.
--
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