On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:02 -0400, Ed Harrison wrote:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
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 attachment
Sorry for the lenght of the document, but shortening by me could be the wrong way
I'm very curieus,
André You have an Atheros AR5006EG which is reported to work with madwifi. See url below.
http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/i586/ All new as of May 6, 2008.
You probably need madwifi madwifi-devel and the appropriate kernel module based on the kernel you are running(it looks like these are for kernel 2.6.22.16).
After you get them installed, I know nothing further. Never worked with atheros wireless.
Ed
Actually he can fire me off an e-mail, I have an Aspire and am using the mad-wifi (AMD64 kernel), I'd be happy to go over it with him. It'd help me too;). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org