The ath5k driver needs to be loaded with the "nohwcrypt" option. Run "modprobe ath_pci" and use NetworkManager and everything should work fine.
Then install madwifi and madwifi-kmp- manually through the madwifi openSUSE repositories and make sure you have the latest version - for some reason one-click-install didn't work for me. Some laptops are marked as having an AR5BXB53 which is the same device.īlacklist ath5k as described on the madwifi page and reboot. This device is typically misidentified in lspci as a 5006eg.
Requires adding the wireless drivers repository, which contains up-to-date wireless drivers, and also blacklisting the ath5k driver Ndiswrapper will require driver from the Netgear equivalent card called the WPNT511Ĭompiling madwifi driver from source, revision 3745 works fine Let Gnome NetworkManager do its normal thing. Blacklist the agnx driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local before you insert your card. For example Broadcom BCM4312 has two variants with different PCI ID and two different support scenario If the first command does not work for any reason, try the following command if you have a pcmcia card or an onboard card:įor some device it is very important to note the hardware ID. WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP Memory Range: 0xf1000000-0xf100ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company" Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."ĭevice: pci 0x002b "AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)" Model: "Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)" UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_2b Sample output: 22: PCI 800.0: 0282 WLAN controller Carefully note down the Vendor, Device (usually is your chipset), revision, bus type, driver in use and any other helpful information. It will output quite a bit of information about the wireless adapter. There is an excellent wikipedia page regarding chipsets and free software compatibility. In most cases chipsets are not listed however. You may be able to determine free software compatibility based on the chipset if it is listed. Most others indicate Linux support and don't indicate free software support.
There aren't many sources for free software compatible products. This can cause problems for users as previously the manufacturers supported the card. Non-free drivers can't be supported by the free software community because manufacturers have refused to release the source code. Many wireless cards depend on non-free drivers. If you are here because you have experienced a problem with your wireless card after upgrading you may want to consider replacing the card rather than trying to get it to work using a program like NDISWrapper. Information about updating this HCL can be found at the end of this page. When updating the HCL, please do check that the hardware continues to work as expected for the most recent release. However, there is no guarantee the current release did not somehow cause a problem with the driver or configuration for that piece of hardware. Please note that if a piece of hardware was working with a previous openSUSE release, it is likely it will work with the most recent openSUSE release if it is based on a chipset with free software drivers (and firmware if required).
There is also a list of wireless chipsets / cards and their working states in openSUSE as reported by the users.
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