[opensuse] Wireless woes w SUSE11 on ThinkPad R50 (2100B wireless)
Just installed 11 on my IBM TP. Great! I'll be a major SuSE distro. It'll be a major Linux distro... The system identifies (correctly) the PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adaptor (built in) as eth1. I can configure it using the grey circular ikon in my taskbar (is that Knetworkmanager?), I can configure it using YaST if I so desire. I configure it using ordinary WEP encryption, not very safe but fine for starters. No connect. Never. Ever. The little wheel turns around - and then gives up. I then searched YaST for "networkmanager" and re-installed networkmanager and Knetworkmanager. Same thing, no luck. It bothers and puzzles me that if I swap in Ubuntu 7/8 (have disks with both), the wireless works right away... I don't want to run Ubuntu, I'm a SuSE man....but still. When 10.2 and 10.3 was on the machine, they worked out of the box too. What happened? I've attached (if one can do so, otherwise I'll re-post with more text...) some info from the Networkmanager log. I hope this info is helpfull. As always...thanks a million! -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard:
Just installed 11 on my IBM TP. Great! I'll be a major SuSE distro. It'll be a major Linux distro...
The system identifies (correctly) the PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adaptor (built in) as eth1.
I can configure it using the grey circular ikon in my taskbar (is that Knetworkmanager?), I can configure it using YaST if I so desire. I configure it using ordinary WEP encryption, not very safe but fine for starters.
No connect. Never. Ever. The little wheel turns around - and then gives up. First guess: You didn't install ipw-firmware .
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Which module is loaded for the card?
Francesco
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Verner Kjærsgaard
Just installed 11 on my IBM TP. Great! I'll be a major SuSE distro. It'll be a major Linux distro...
The system identifies (correctly) the PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adaptor (built in) as eth1.
I can configure it using the grey circular ikon in my taskbar (is that Knetworkmanager?), I can configure it using YaST if I so desire. I configure it using ordinary WEP encryption, not very safe but fine for starters.
No connect. Never. Ever. The little wheel turns around - and then gives up.
I then searched YaST for "networkmanager" and re-installed networkmanager and Knetworkmanager. Same thing, no luck.
It bothers and puzzles me that if I swap in Ubuntu 7/8 (have disks with both), the wireless works right away...
I don't want to run Ubuntu, I'm a SuSE man....but still. When 10.2 and 10.3 was on the machine, they worked out of the box too. What happened?
I've attached (if one can do so, otherwise I'll re-post with more text...) some info from the Networkmanager log. I hope this info is helpfull.
As always...thanks a million!
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I have an acer 5920g with wireless card PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. It uses
the module ipw3945. After upgradind to openSuSE 11.0, it stopped
working. I ported to openSuSE 11.0 the drivers from openSuSE 10.3 and
the card stared working again. I made some rpms, that are available
from my website
http://teodori.org/repository/utilities/opensuse11.0/current/64bit.html.
They are my system specific so I don't know if they can help you.
Francesco
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Verner Kjærsgaard
Just installed 11 on my IBM TP. Great! I'll be a major SuSE distro. It'll be a major Linux distro...
The system identifies (correctly) the PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adaptor (built in) as eth1.
I can configure it using the grey circular ikon in my taskbar (is that Knetworkmanager?), I can configure it using YaST if I so desire. I configure it using ordinary WEP encryption, not very safe but fine for starters.
No connect. Never. Ever. The little wheel turns around - and then gives up.
I then searched YaST for "networkmanager" and re-installed networkmanager and Knetworkmanager. Same thing, no luck.
It bothers and puzzles me that if I swap in Ubuntu 7/8 (have disks with both), the wireless works right away...
I don't want to run Ubuntu, I'm a SuSE man....but still. When 10.2 and 10.3 was on the machine, they worked out of the box too. What happened?
I've attached (if one can do so, otherwise I'll re-post with more text...) some info from the Networkmanager log. I hope this info is helpfull.
As always...thanks a million!
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Francesco Teodori wrote:
I have an acer 5920g with wireless card PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. It uses the module ipw3945. After upgradind to openSuSE 11.0, it stopped working. I ported to openSuSE 11.0 the drivers from openSuSE 10.3 and the card stared working again. I made some rpms, that are available from my website http://teodori.org/repository/utilities/opensuse11.0/current/64bit.html. They are my system specific so I don't know if they can help you.
Francesco, EVERY laptop upgrade I've done has later failed with Intel wifi chipsets! 11.0 simply doesn't install cleanly when doing an upgrade. I've had to do a clean install, formating all partitions except /home. Once done, wifi works. I have had some upgrades that did go well, but NOT laptops. I'm doing ONLY clean installs now (have at least 2 more weeks of it).....it's what's always been the best solution..........still is. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Fred,
that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install,
formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does
not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old
ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable
it.
Francesco
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Fred A. Miller
Francesco Teodori wrote:
I have an acer 5920g with wireless card PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. It uses the module ipw3945. After upgradind to openSuSE 11.0, it stopped working. I ported to openSuSE 11.0 the drivers from openSuSE 10.3 and the card stared working again. I made some rpms, that are available from my website http://teodori.org/repository/utilities/opensuse11.0/current/64bit.html. They are my system specific so I don't know if they can help you.
Francesco, EVERY laptop upgrade I've done has later failed with Intel wifi chipsets! 11.0 simply doesn't install cleanly when doing an upgrade. I've had to do a clean install, formating all partitions except /home. Once done, wifi works. I have had some upgrades that did go well, but NOT laptops. I'm doing ONLY clean installs now (have at least 2 more weeks of it).....it's what's always been the best solution..........still is.
Fred
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Francesco Teodori wrote:
Fred, that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install, formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable it.
Ok........I think you have the 4965 chipset, where I've been working with so far mostly the 3945 chipset....2 diff. drivers. Hopefully, it will be fixed ASAP! Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Fred A. Miller skrev:
Francesco Teodori wrote:
Fred, that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install, formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable it.
Ok........I think you have the 4965 chipset, where I've been working with so far mostly the 3945 chipset....2 diff. drivers. Hopefully, it will be fixed ASAP!
Fred
Still not really good. Well, I finally got it working, without encryption (WEP). With encryption, it doesn't work. I'll keep the list posted... -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Fred A. Miller skrev:
Francesco Teodori wrote:
Fred, that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install, formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable it.
Ok........I think you have the 4965 chipset, where I've been working with so far mostly the 3945 chipset....2 diff. drivers. Hopefully, it will be fixed ASAP!
Fred
Still not really good. Well, I finally got it working, without encryption (WEP). With encryption, it doesn't work. I'll keep the list posted...
Good.....thanks! The driver for that chipset SHOULD have been working perfectly out-of-the-box. NOT good. I've run into this twice in the past week and to save not having the clients go back to, choke, gag, puke, Vista, I put PCLinuxOS 2007 on both. Sorry, but the conversion HAD to be done now.........not later. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Fred,
my chipset is 3945.
Francesco
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Fred A. Miller
Francesco Teodori wrote:
Fred, that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install, formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable it.
Ok........I think you have the 4965 chipset, where I've been working with so far mostly the 3945 chipset....2 diff. drivers. Hopefully, it will be fixed ASAP!
Fred
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