Hi Rolf, in fact, ifconfig won't show you what you are looking for in terms of WiFi devices... try iwconfig instead. Once the wireless device has been configured it will appear when you issue a normal ifconfig from the command line. As a suggestion: try wlassistant :-) HTH, Martin --- Rolf van der Zwart wrote:

Hello,

I don't know really where to look but I've got a labtop with a wireless adapter build-in but it doens't seem to result in a wireless network. I can configure it with Yast but looking with ifconfig it doesn't appear.

Can anyone give some suggestions where to look? It's Suse 10.1 Prof.

Thanks in advance.

Rolf.

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On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:50, Rolf van der Zwart wrote:

Hello,

I don't know really where to look but I've got a labtop with a wireless adapter build-in but it doens't seem to result in a wireless network. I can configure it with Yast but looking with ifconfig it doesn't appear.

Can anyone give some suggestions where to look? It's Suse 10.1 Prof.

More details are needed. What chipset is the wireless? run /sbin/lspci to find out. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

"Rolf van der Zwart" writes:

Hello,

This is what:

/sbin/lspci gives:

00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

That one is not supported at all in 10.1 due to no driver at that time, it should work with openSUSE 10.2 or the current factory rpms, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

On Monday 28 August 2006 6:20 am, Rolf van der Zwart wrote:

Hello,

This is what:

/sbin/lspci gives:

00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) On SuSE 10.1 you will need to use ndiswrapper. I have the same problem. First, you need to get the Windows version of the Broadcom driver (32-bit or 64-bit). I detailed the steps on this list back in April. In my case, it was on an HP NX6125 64-bit system, but the steps are the same: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Apr/2195.html

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:50:09 +0200 (CEST) "Rolf van der Zwart" wrote:

Hello,

I don't know really where to look but I've got a labtop with a wireless adapter build-in but it doens't seem to result in a wireless network. I can configure it with Yast but looking with ifconfig it doesn't appear.

Can anyone give some suggestions where to look? It's Suse 10.1 Prof.

Thanks in advance.

Rolf.

Rolf, After reading the responses to your post, I have an additional thought. If you can download the windows driver for your wireless chipset, you can then use ndiswrapper (which is on your SuSE cds) to run the driver on Linux. I had the same problem with my Linksys pcmcia wifi card. I downloaded the driver from Linksys, then in a terminal as root, I ran ndiswrapper -i driverfilename. After rebooting, I called up a terminal, and as root typed modprobe ndiswrapper....up came wifi. I could then configure it for my system... Best, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science reporter The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA Office: 617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | Amateur radio call: KC1jb www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net