Sam Preston schreef:
Hi all,
I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A215-S4807), and am dual-booting Vista and OpenSUSE 10.2. The laptop has an Atheros AR5007EG wireless NIC. After searching around, I tried installing the ndiswrapper module and the windows drivers, and 'ndiswrapper -l' states that everything is okay. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the connection to work. I'm new to setting up a wireless connetion in linux, so I'm not sure if the driver isn't working correctly, or if I'm just not setting up the connection correctly. 'iwconfig' shows wlan0, so I try:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name"
after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc. I then try:
ifconfig wlan0 up ifup wlan0
I get a warning that NetworkManager is being notified to set up the DHCP connection, but I don't seem to actually connect -- I can open up a browser and I just get a 'page not found' error. What should I be doing to test this connection? Also, the NetworkManager icon in the system tray still says that there is a connection to eth0, not wlan0.
Thanks for any help,
-Sam
Two questions: 1. Does wlan0 show an IP-address in ifconfig/iwconfig? 2. Does your WLAN use any form of encryption like WEP or WPA to connect to the router? That must be set up as well. (Use Yast instead of the CLI, that's a lot easier) To test the router connection ping the router: ping 192.168.x.x where x.x have to be the actual values of you router's IP address. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org