Ed Harrison wrote:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
Mark Misulich wrote:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
I want to connect my Aspire 5315, provided with an Ethernet Network Card, In Vista it's no problem but in suse 10.3 I miss a Yast module for such a job. Can anybody tell me the steps I have to take to come to a solution? I'm a user of OpenSUSE sinds long, but no developer. Thanks in advance. André den Oudsten
Here is a link to a page which links to multiple methods of getting wireless going in Opensuse:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=22475
Personally, I use ndiswrapper to install my WinXP or Vista driver , and it works great. Here is a link to the various howtos:
http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/
Use the 10.2 instructions for Opensuse 10.3. You have to install and use knetwork manager to have a program to detect the various wifi networks available.
Mark
From the packman.links2linux.org site I could install wiki-radar for 10.3, but trieing to start it nothing happened!! KnetworkManager as well as NetworkManager are installed, but I can't get them to work
What to do?
André
I haven't been following this thread, but had a time getting wifi up.
1. Is there a module loaded? iwconfig as root will show available wireless devices. Without a loaded module AND its firmware, you may see a device; but without both you will never see a network no matter what you use. At least this is the case with my BCM4318.
2. Assuming no module is loaded, do a hwinfo --netcard to see what you have.
3. Mine is a BCM4318, so I installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and wireless-tools.
4. firmware was installed using /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.
modprobe bcm43xx gave me a wireless card when invoking iwconfig. It is not wlan0 as expected, but eth1. Still connects and works.
Ed Harrison
I ran (as root) iwconfig , hwinfo --netcard and lspci -vvv.
In Yast Hardware I also found something
See here:
linux:/home/Andredo # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
th0 no wireless extensions.
linux:/home/Andredo # hwinfo --netcard
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Acer Incorporated [ALI] NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI
Express"
HW Address: 00:1b:38:5b:82:64
Link detected: no
linux:/home/Andredo # lspci -vvv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0136
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-