June 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

new at wireless configuration
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

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: -- Last login: Tue May 30 13:53:31 2006 Have a lot of fun... citlali:~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. citlali:~ # -- As far as I can understand, lo and eth0 are the local loopback and the onboard ethernet interface. Please, 1. what sit0 does stand for? 2. is this what is expected to get from a iwconfig considering no wireless driver is loaded 3. what do I need to install/use the Conceptronic USB Wireless adapter? Thank you very much for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

>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. > >-- >Ken Schneider >UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 It worked! Thanks. As stated in a previous message, the complete -i line is ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF.Once I've added ndiswrapper to MODULES_LOAD_ON_BOOT, the power led greened at boot time. Now, the iwconfig output looks like this: -- citlali:~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr:4096 B Fragment thr:4096 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. citlali:~ # -- Thus I have added the network card by using YaST>Network Devices>Network Cards>Traditional Method with ifup>Add and choosing new Wireless PCMCIA card. After restarting the computer, power led is green at startup, but it seems that no wireless link is established. After adding the PCMCIA wireless card, the iwconfig output is not exactly the same: no access point is associated with wlan0, but a nichname appears -- citlali:~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"citlali" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4096 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. citlali:~ # -- Please, how could I debug/solve this issue? Once again, thanks for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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YAST won't open in SUSE 10.1
by John Moore 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

5.30.2006 I have read all the email regarding problems with YAST. I have managed to update installing / using a command line utility which can update / add repositories. Unfortunately, I still cannot open YAST. Worked fine in 10.0. Upgraded to 10.1 and, it wouldn't open. As you know, YAST does a lot of things besides just package management so it would be cool if I could actually get into it. Sigh. Anyone have any ideas. Would be most grateful.

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Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

>>> Ken Schneider<suse-list2(a)bout-tyme.net> 31/5/2006 18:04 >>> >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. > >-- >Ken Schneider >UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 Thanks, Ken, As for the "windows" driver installation. I've download a driver's file listed in the wiki, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02.zip. It includes two *.inf files. Once of them with "$Chicago$" in the Signature within [version]. I'm guessing this is the right one and that bcmwl5.sys is the right *.sys file. Once I've copied both files to the Linux box, I've done... ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf Both it seems that something gone wrong. Here some outputs... citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: lsbcmnds invalid driver! citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ls bcmwl5.sys lsbcmnds.inf citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf lsbcmnds is already installed. Use -e to remove it citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -e lsbcmnds.inf Driver lsbcmnds.inf is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # Pleae, what where am I wrong? Thanks!!! Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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kde upgrade
by Paul Kaplan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I'm trying to add sources to yast for upgrading 10.1 to kde 3.5.3. The online updater is disabled and Zen is not installed. FTP ftp.kde.org pub/kde/stable/3.5.3/SuSE/SUSE_Linux_10.1 So why is it taking foooooooorrrrrrrrevvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeer to complete the configuration? TIA Paul

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New 10.1 x86_64 install has NO usb connectivity
by Patrick Shanahan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

After a fatal ten-year-old motherboard problem, I finally replaced my box with an athlon dual core x86_64 4200, GAK8N Ultra-SLI, 2 SATA drives, a lota memory and a large power supply. I am in heaven! But, I cannot access any usb device. Note: I had to unplug all usb devices during install as a stall would ensue when the pre-install finished detecting hardware and was probing for usb devices. With the usb devices removed the install was a piece of cake. Reattached the usb devices prior to the software update with not problem, but no access either. Point: Kubunto 6.06 live boots fine and has usb access. wahoo:/home/pat # l /proc/bus/usb/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-05-28 18:52 ./ dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2006-05-28 11:57 ../ wahoo:/home/pat # modprobe -l |grep -i usb /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/sound/usb/snd-usb-lib.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/safe_serial.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/option.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/omninet.ko 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What am I missing? thanks, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

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