Comments on: Atheros AR 5007 EG on openSUSE 11.0

By: West

West — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:24:08 +0000

I have tried this and it worked for me with the previous kernel. However, when I updated the kernel yesterday, and recompiled madwifi, I can not configure the connection via Network Manager with error “unable to configure network card because the kernel device is not present”. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

By: Masim "Vavai" Sugianto

Masim "Vavai" Sugianto — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:58:31 +0000

Hi Theo,

Install build-essential package before compiling the driver by run this command :

zypper in kernel-source gcc gcc-c++ make

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:13:18 +0000

I have installed Suse 11 and I’m completly new to Linux, I wanted to install the driver but at the command make I get an error that the command is not recognized. I’m doing something wrong but what (I was inside the madwifi directory, unpacked the tar.gz, and I using the terminal)????
Is there someone who can help

By: gavinto

gavinto — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:42:59 +0000

I know its been awhile since I commented on this. I needed a full day so I could play with the router and not affect the rest of the clan in the house. I now appear to have wireless working. Problem was that the router had MAC ID filtering and I didn’t realize that the wireless card had a different MAC ID. learned something today!

Thanks for all your help. Perhaps the note about MAC ID is worthy of including in a troubleshooting support database faq? Not sure who maintains that particular one, but perhaps someone could pass it on for me?

Thanks again

By: furrito

furrito — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:39:31 +0000

I use WPA2 and madwifi with no problems.:)

By: gavinto

gavinto — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:19:53 +0000

Almost there! I did as you suggested and I now get ath0 up. Now I just need to connect to my WPA passworded wireless router. I can see all the neighbours networks on Knetworkmanager. I’ve configured mine to connect to the home router and it looks like it gets 80-90% there but fails somehow. Any known WPA problems with madwifi?

Cheers and thanks alot for all your help with this. So much appreciated

gavinto

By: furrito

furrito — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:48:08 +0000

It sounds like ath5k won’t go away no matter what you do.

One sure-fire way to kill it is to reinstall opensuse and enter ‘brokenmodules=ath5k’ (without the quotes) on the boot line parameter; that way ath5k will never install to begin with.

Otherwise, I would use the rmmod command before attempting anything else. Maybe try rmmod ath5k, rmmod ath5k_pci, rmmod phy0, then blacklist all of them, reboot, make sure no ath5k loads up, then install madwifi. Then…

modprobe ath_pci
ifconfig ath0 up
iwlist ath0 scan

wlan0 is usually ndiswrapper and that should not be there. remove any trace of ndiswrapper and use ath0 for madwifi.

By: gavinto

gavinto — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:02:41 +0000

Hiya again,

after the kernel update I blew away the previously installed version (make uninstall &make clean)

I then installed madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801

Tried blacklist +modprobe ath_pci reboot then rmmod ath5k modprobe ath_pci

Alas, still not much luck

dmesg |grep HAL
dmesg |grep ath_pci
dmesg |grep ath5k
ath5k_pci 0000:07:00.0: registered as ‘phy0′
ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:07:00.0 failed with error -5
ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device

By: furrito

furrito — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:06:12 +0000

Whoah, correction. modprobe ath_pci installs the driver, it doesn’t blacklist it. My bad.
(must not post on lack of sleep:)

By: furrito

furrito — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:02:44 +0000

To remove ath5k I used the command ‘rmmod ath5k’
The I entered ‘modprobe ath_pci’ to prevent it from being loaded at boot time.
I ran these commands as root and rebooted.