Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Joseph Loo <jloo@xxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >  
> > I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device
> > in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.
> >  
> > I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a
> > Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0
> > adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was
> > detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net
> > with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.
> >  
> > lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find
> > at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List.
> > Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller
> > must be installed prior to being able to see it.
> >  
> > I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.
> >  
> > ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular
> > situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper
> > packages.
> >  
> > Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the
> > Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:
> >  
> >     
> But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver
> using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native
> drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
>
> As root:
>
> ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD)
> ndiswrapper -m
> modprobe ndiswrapper
> ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
>
> I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line
> in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
>
>   
That is not quite true. I am using madwifi, granted an older version. 
Under SUSE 10.0, it found my card and is working pretty well. Now if I 
can only get the wpa - supplicant back to work (worked in the original 
install).

--
Joseph Loo
jloo@xxxxxxx


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