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- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information Yast2 Hardware Network Card NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (eth0) AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter Network Interface Loopback Network Interface Ethernet Network Interface CPU Intel Celeron 530@ 1.73 GHz I'm very curieus, André