Katheline Chapin wrote:
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: Quoting Katheline Chapin
: 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