Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a DLink DWL650 wireless card which has worked (and still does)
under 
> other distros for 2 years.  
> 
> In a cleanly installed opensuse 10.1, I have added the packman
madwifi-kmp 
> package.  The card is recognized by the hardware probe since it shows
up when 
> I attempt to configure internet access through it.  Moreover, KNetwork 
> Manager shows several wireless access points, so it appears that the
card is 
> detecting the broadcast signals from several different 11b and 11g 
> transmitters in the area.
> 
> The problem is that nothing I have tried yet allows me to use the
connection.  
> ifconfig shows the card under wlan0 (witht the correct MAC hardware
address), 
> but doesn't report an ip address.  I also can't ping my router. 
dhcpcd wlan0 
> doesn't seem to do anything for the wireless card, but it causes my wired 
> (eth0) connection to loose it's ip address.
> 
> I've turned off my firewall and there's no encryption on the wireless
side so 
> I'm stumped.
> 

I haven't upgraded my laptop yet to 10.1, so I can't comment exactly.
However, can you ping yourself? Are you using KInternet or the newer
Network Manager?  Also, you might want to check if your WLAN card is
built in correctly. IIRC, Novell stopped including non OSS WLAN drivers
in their kernel modules. Again, since I haven't tried 10.1 on my laptop
yet, I'm not sure of the effect on those of us using laptops.

Finally, you mentioned that the WLAN worked in earlier distros. Which
ones? SUSE? Whoppix? Ubuntu? Fedora? PHLAK?

-- 
k