Re: Problem with Toshiba L300 wireless interface

[Vladimir Botka <vbotka gmail com>]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:36:16 +1300
john <john og co nz> wrote:
> I have a Toshiba L300 (bought in NZ) and the wireless has never worked
> under OpenSUSE 11.0.

I recommend to upgrade to 11.2 .

> 1. lspci reveals that the wireless chipset is Atheros AR242x (not the
> AR5210 etc expected).
>     It is located at 03:00.0 and the numeric stamp for the AR242x is
> 168c:001c
> 2. The device (wifi0, or ath0, or wlan0) never gets created.
> 3. Might ACPI be contributing to the problem?
> 4. Is the AR242x designation a maverick?

No. this is OK [1]
168c 001c AR242x 802.11abg NIC (PCI Express)
[1] http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/168c/001c

> Can anyone shine light on this?

If the problem persists after upgrading to 11.2 would it be
possible to report bug on bugzilla.novell.com ?

Cheers,
-- 
	-vlado
	Vladimir Botka