[ltp] atheros + suse 10.1 constant disconnect

[Vijay Garla]

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Hi,

I have madwifi installed!  I've tried the rpms for suse, and building it 
myself: last stable build, and several builds from recent snapshots.  
Nothing works: I get disconnected atleast every 5 minutes.  This didn't 
happen with the older version of madwifi that was distributed with suse 
9.3.

I've also put madwifi into full debug mode to see what the problem could 
be - when I get disconnected, there is no message from madwifi in 
/var/log/messages: i'm not sure if there's something going on in 
madwifi, or if suse 10.1 is just crap.

I've also tried with and without network manager (i.e. via ifup).  No 
luck (atleast network manager notices that I've been disconnected, and 
reconnects).

Any advice/suggestions?  Does anybody else have suse 10.1 on a t43(p) ?

- vijay

Donald B. Altman wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Vijay Garla <vngarla@gmx.net> on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:42:02 +0200
>
> Hi Vijay,
>
> This comes from:
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7527984757.html
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Don A
>
>
> Atheros wireless network drivers
>
> The original release of SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS did not contain drivers for Atheros-based wireless network cards. There is now a package available, however. Go to the Software Manager in YaST, then search for this term: madwifi
>
> In the right pane, most people will need to select these two packages:
>
>     * madwifi
>     * madwifi-kmp-default
>
> If you have a multi-CPU, Hyper-Threaded, or dual-core system, select the SMP packages as well. If you're using Xen and need to have Atheros support in your virtual machines, select the Xen-related madwifi drivers. After you have installed these packages, you can load the ath_pci module by hand or just restart the computer to activate your wireless network.
>
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