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Katheline Chapin

3 Dec 2007 3 Dec '07

00:53

I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed. The wireless works wonderfully on the Vista side. Any help or walkthru will be helpful. I have been trying to get it to behave, but have not been successful so far. Thank you, Kate -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Jeffrey L. Taylor

3 Dec 3 Dec

01:40

New subject: [opensuse] Toshiba Sattelite Laptop (p105) Wireless Connection set up for Suse

Quoting Katheline Chapin :

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I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed.

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From a terminal logged in as root, use the lspci command.

Or better: lspci -v | less /Network There is a lot of output, it lists all devices on the PCI bus plus adapters, controllers, etc. Somewhere in there is the wireless adapter. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Katheline Chapin

01:51

When I do this, and I locate the card, How do I activate, or enable it? Or will it do it on its own? Sorry, haven't done much with wireless. Kate On Dec 2, 2007 8:40 PM, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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Quoting Katheline Chapin :

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I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed.

From a terminal logged in as root, use the lspci command.

Or better:

lspci -v | less /Network

There is a lot of output, it lists all devices on the PCI bus plus adapters, controllers, etc. Somewhere in there is the wireless adapter.

HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Jim Flanagan

04:57

Katheline Chapin wrote:

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When I do this, and I locate the card, How do I activate, or enable it? Or will it do it on its own? Sorry, haven't done much with wireless. Kate

On Dec 2, 2007 8:40 PM, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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Quoting Katheline Chapin :

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I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed.

From a terminal logged in as root, use the lspci command.

Or better:

lspci -v | less /Network

There is a lot of output, it lists all devices on the PCI bus plus adapters, controllers, etc. Somewhere in there is the wireless adapter.

HTH, Jeffrey --

Some wifi cards work well in Linux, others not directly (or not without modifying the internal code of the card itself, which I don't recommend).

For a start have a look here, http://en.opensuse.org/WiFi_HOWTO You will have to poke around a bit to see the current state of different cards and approaches. If your card won't work directly with Linux, there is a work around. You should be able to use ndiswrapper. Here you use this as a wrapper for your windows wifi driver. This method works well for me using an SMC USB g adapter. It took a little bit of tweaking, but its not that hard. See here, http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper Note the part that says "Loading Ndiswrapper at Boot (opensuse 10.3)". After I got the windows driver to work, the thing would not come up after reboot, and I had to do that part to get it to load at boot. I don't know at all how well, or even if this works with suse 10.0. Mine works in 10.3. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Kai Ponte

05:34

On Sunday 02 December 2007 17:51, Katheline Chapin wrote:

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When I do this, and I locate the card, How do I activate, or enable it? Or will it do it on its own? Sorry, haven't done much with wireless.

First off - did the network card come detected from YaST when setting up? I've been using SUSE since 9.1 and have not had an issue with network cards since. Just FYI, you'll see something like this if you type the command:

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10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 135b Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

That's the entry for my Intel card. Also you might try ifconfig (it is in your /sbin folder so the regular user needs to type that folder name). kai@jabba:~> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D4:A7:6D:64 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:177 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D2:D3:42:E1 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2075971 errors:0 dropped:6018 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:119178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:197258050 (188.1 Mb) TX bytes:17621296 (16.8 Mb) Interrupt:185 Base address:0xe000 Memory:f4000000-f4000fff This shows what your networks are if they are found and up/running. I also have wlassistant running. HTH!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Adam Tauno Williams

11:55

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10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 135b Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

There are two drivers installed for this card (and that is specifically mentioned in the release notes that were displayed when you installed). I had the same problem with my P105-S6207. I switched to the other driver using the YaST GUI and then everything worked. This assumes we are talking about openSUSE 10.3. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin

04:50

Katheline Chapin wrote:

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I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed. The wireless works wonderfully on the Vista side. Any help or walkthru will be helpful. I have been trying to get it to behave, but have not been successful so far. Thank you, Kate

You most likely have an Atheros card. Load the madwifi drivers and all will work. They are available from the suse repositories. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Adam Tauno Williams

11:53

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I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105,

P105 isn't a model number. You have a P105-XXXXX, what is "XXXXX"? For example, I'm using a P105-S6207.

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Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10.

SuSE 10? Or an openSUSE version? Which one? -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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