Re: [SLE] Wireless Card Not Working
On Friday 17 December 2004 22:43, Bob Clay wrote:
Sorry to not have already told you but I did load ndiswrapper and then loaded the windows driver via that utility. It (wlan0) shows up via ifconfig but I cannot seem to get it to use DHCP to get an address. Also, rebooting makes wlan0 go away.
Ah, seeing wlan0 means that the driver does work ! But I suspect that you did not yet configure the wlan0, i.e. setting the mode, the wep-key (if used), the essid, etc. Did you ? For details, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html After rebooting you must manually restart the whole ndiswrapper thing again. Do have that automated, follow the instructions at the end of : http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation HTH. Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"
On Friday 17 December 2004 04:01 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 22:43, Bob Clay wrote:
Sorry to not have already told you but I did load ndiswrapper and then loaded the windows driver via that utility. It (wlan0) shows up via ifconfig but I cannot seem to get it to use DHCP to get an address. Also, rebooting makes wlan0 go away.
Ah, seeing wlan0 means that the driver does work ! But I suspect that you did not yet configure the wlan0, i.e. setting the mode, the wep-key (if used), the essid, etc. Did you ? For details, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html
After rebooting you must manually restart the whole ndiswrapper thing again. Do have that automated, follow the instructions at the end of : http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation
The directions wont work on SuSE9.1. You can get it to load on boot by going into /etc/sysconfig/kernel and set: MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="ndiswrapper" or driverloader if you're using the linuxant thing. If you're not using Knemo, then use Yast to insert all the correct info into /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 One problem I havent worked out is how to insure dhcpcd wlan0 will always get the wifi card to get its IP everytime. There is still some black magic involved that I havent figured out. Maybe someone else has found the key. HTH, RA
it may help some of you to solve some wlan problems .. i use driverloader with full success but for some reason have no routing to the gateway using wlan i use dhcp - all configured wiht yasat on always YOU most current suse version ifconfig - wlan0 shows up - drivers loaded and the usual configuration is done using yast only i still have to manually add route to gateway - then all is fine hence i have to enter in bash the command ( example for my present hotspot in use in the PH ) route add default gw 10.0.0.2 i have no idea why and care little because the solution is simple and works always neither "rcnetwork restart" nor reboot changes the need for above procedure hans cyberspace ashram http://www.kriyayoga.com On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 21:45 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 04:01 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 22:43, Bob Clay wrote:
Sorry to not have already told you but I did load ndiswrapper and then loaded the windows driver via that utility. It (wlan0) shows up via ifconfig but I cannot seem to get it to use DHCP to get an address. Also, rebooting makes wlan0 go away.
Ah, seeing wlan0 means that the driver does work ! But I suspect that you did not yet configure the wlan0, i.e. setting the mode, the wep-key (if used), the essid, etc. Did you ? For details, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html
After rebooting you must manually restart the whole ndiswrapper thing again. Do have that automated, follow the instructions at the end of : http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation
The directions wont work on SuSE9.1. You can get it to load on boot by going into /etc/sysconfig/kernel and set: MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="ndiswrapper"
or driverloader if you're using the linuxant thing.
If you're not using Knemo, then use Yast to insert all the correct info into /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0
One problem I havent worked out is how to insure dhcpcd wlan0 will always get the wifi card to get its IP everytime. There is still some black magic involved that I havent figured out. Maybe someone else has found the key.
HTH, RA
Driverloader was the best $20 I ever spent. I think I ran into that problem where it the default gateway didn't work. I edited the /etc/sysconfig/network/routes to default 10.0.0.2 - wlan0 Doug On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:23:32 +0800, Hans Neukomm wrote
it may help some of you to solve some wlan problems ..
i use driverloader with full success but for some reason have no routing to the gateway using wlan i use dhcp - all configured wiht yasat on always YOU most current suse version
ifconfig - wlan0 shows up - drivers loaded and the usual configuration is done using yast only
i still have to manually add route to gateway - then all is fine hence i have to enter in bash the command ( example for my present hotspot in use in the PH )
route add default gw 10.0.0.2
i have no idea why and care little because the solution is simple and works always neither "rcnetwork restart" nor reboot changes the need for above procedure
RA
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