Thanks for lesson in netiquette. I was able to wrap the NET8180.INF (windows file ) with ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF and then did modprobe ndiswrapper. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Schneider" To: "SuSE email list" Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Any Wireless Card which works with Suse 9.1 Personal

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 16:40 -0500, navdeep virk wrote:

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Here's the progress I have made

Card Realtek 8180 , Suse 9.1 Personal I did what you suggested,got the ndiswrapper compiled ,did modprobe ndiswrapper

There is more then installing ndiswrapper and doing a modprobe ndiswrapper, you need to install the drivers using ndiswrapper -i first. Read the docs under /usr/share/doc/packages/ndiswrapper for more info.

Also no need to reply to the person trying to help you and the list and the person is on the list. Unless you are asked otherwise you should only reply to the list. And try to trim your replies as well.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Schneider" To: "SuSE email list" Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Any Wireless Card which works with Suse 9.1 Personal

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:21 -0500, Nsvirk wrote:

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Thanks for lesson in netiquette. I was able to wrap the NET8180.INF (windows file ) with ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF and then did modprobe ndiswrapper.

I hope that helped to get your wireless card working. Don't forget to save the settings with ndiswrapper -w.

Also when you reply most on this list prefer the you put your answer below the part of the message you are replying to.

Enjoy SuSE linux, I have been for many years.

Still no luck , the light blinks ,but I cannot get the IP from the router. I cannot change the essid to what I want . dmesg shows wlan0: no IPv6 routers present .iwlink wlan0 scan shows the AP's close by.

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There's an excellent writeup of this in the distribution specific wiki pages at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net Here's a long URL that among other distros lists three different entries for SuSE: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Distributions?PHPSESSID... I've been meaning to write my own since information on how to get WPA to work using wpa_supplicant is a little fractured. In 9.2 I wasn't able to use YAST. I even tried more recent installs of ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant (YOU did have a upgrade rpm for this) and then put the appropriate settings/info into YAST. no go. So I modified the different scripts to get it come up on boot and do dhcpcd. My main problems were that one script was looking for wpa_supplicant in the wrong directory. I also needed to manually create a ifcfg-wlan0 since the network scripts didn't seem to think such an interface existed and I also fiddled with run order in init.d/rc.5 though maybe I didn't need to do that. scripts I'm referring to are 'wpa_supplicant.conf' and 'wpa' which calls wpa_supplicant on boot. the script 'wpa' is listed in one of the wikis referenced above. I realize you're not asking about wpa_supplicant but the wiki's do talk about setting up ndsiwrapper. However, you really shouldn't just rely on WEP. It really is very easy to crack. That's is unless you're running another layer of encryption just as ssh on top of it. I still can't get this to work is broadcast SSID is off, but I'm going to try that one more time. Finally you should try to get it working briefly without any encryption just to prove that's working. i did that at first for less than a minute. John Erhardt Ken Schneider wrote:

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:32 -0500, Navdeep Virk wrote:

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I hope that helped to get your wireless card working. Don't forget to save the settings with ndiswrapper -w.

Also when you reply most on this list prefer the you put your answer below the part of the message you are replying to.

Enjoy SuSE linux, I have been for many years.

Still no luck , the light blinks ,but I cannot get the IP from the router. I cannot change the essid to what I want . dmesg shows wlan0: no IPv6 routers present .iwlink wlan0 scan shows the AP's close by.

At this point you need to go into YaST and configure the card. If you are using WEP encryption you will need to set that as well.