Atheros – openSUSE Lizards https://lizards.opensuse.org Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:29:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 Atheros AR 5007 EG on openSUSE 11.0 https://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/07/14/atheros-ar-5007-eg-on-opensuse-110/ https://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/07/14/atheros-ar-5007-eg-on-opensuse-110/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:21:28 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=95 openSUSE 11.0 failed detect this hardware and wrong identifying the device as AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter. I usually uses madwifi driver for Atheros chipset instead of ath5k but the standard madwifi driver could not be applied for the device. After Googling for a while, I could make it works with the special AR 5007 EG madwifi driver, http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz.

How to make it works ?

  1. Disable or blacklist ath5k driver by add the blacklist ath5k to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
  2. Open konsole or terminal
  3. Install the driver

    4. su
    zypper in kernel-source make gcc gcc-c++
    wget -c http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
    tar -zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
    cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
    make
    make install
    modprobe ath_pci
    reboot

After reboot, you should be configure the wifi from YAST | Network Devices | Network Settings

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