Model: "Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter"
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) Atheros(R) L2 Ethernet Driver - version 2.2.3 Pci.vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'Į: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE= Atheros Communications Info.vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' Would definitely appreciate your inputs on this behaviour. Hope this will help those with the same itch/challenge. Route add default gw metric 0 dev wlan0 (where is my home internal IP range) However, I am able to ping all IPs in my home network.Ĥ) Added a network route via route add and I can surf the web! So happy. While its a step forward, I am still unable to surf the web. Hurray!ģ) When I unplugged the Ethernet cable, it suddenly is able to automagically connect with my home wifi. However, it failed to connect with my home SSID.Ģ) Plugged in a Ethernet cable on my home network, just to test if physical network connection would work, I am able to surf the web. Here goes:ġ) Original challenge: Wifi appears to be available, can scan for SSIDs. hoping readers will have some good input and theories. and I'm going to described it here in very non-technical terms as I still have not figured out how/why it worked.
So, why am I so excited that wifi worked out of the box.? Apparently, wifi should not work with the default ath5k driver as its been reported at OpenSUSE on EeePC page and its true. *drum roll*, Wireless! What's a netbook if wifi doesn't work yeah? Good news is everything works! Well, when I say 'everything', I meant things that matter to me like KDE GUI with compositing (ie 3D eye-candy), Firefox, OpenOffice and other apps, embedded webcam worked on Kopete and. That was all the motivation I needed to install it onto my ASUS EeePC 701 (remember the very 1st netbook?) with 4GB SSD and 1GB RAM. this is big for me as I've not stopped and marvel at GUI for quite a while now. I find myself staring and admiring at it. Luv openSUSE 11.2 so much, especially the default KDE 4.3 GUI.
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