On Sunday 19 February 2006 04:37 pm, L. Mark Stone wrote:
Quoting pelibali
: Hi,
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:08:42 +0300 (EEST)
"Jesper Andersson" <.> wrote:
Dear everyone,
I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network, gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP: DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption.
I know I'm not answering your question, but FWIW I have an IBM R52 with the same chipset, and the wireless works flawlessly with SuSE Pro 10.
Though I doubt ANYTHING works in Wintendo (it is just an illusion), you might want to be sure you're setting up your card for DHCP. Check in Control Center( Yast ) > Network Devices (left pane) > Network Card (right pane) > Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 BG. Look under the bottom panel. You should see that the Device Name is listed, then IP Address assigned using DHCP, then Started Automatically at Boot. If any of those are not correct, you'll need to Edit. Now, if they ARE correct, then you may just need to be sure you're attaching. AFAIK, SUSE doesn't auto-attach to WiFi. At least I've never been able to get it working automatically. To attach, you want to have the KInternet tool running in your system tray. (There's also KWiFiManager, but I have no clue what use it is, other than looking cute. Kind of like the Dallas Cheerleaders.) Right-click on KInternet, and select Wireless Connection. It will list your current connection, which will be false. (Don't know why.) Click the Scan for Wireless Networks tab. If your network isn't listed, then click Refresh. If it still isn't listed, then click Start Active Scan. (For some unknown reason, this works better.) Click on the Name/ESSID item you want and select Connect. Enter your WEP password (You DO have one, Right?) and select OK. You should be attached. Oh, if you're using the more-secure WPA encryption, forget about it. You can't attach. Kind of screwed, but that's what we pay for by having a better OS. HTH!!! -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part