On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> wrote:
Until now, I have been using my notebook machine with a wired connection to a router. Today I tried to use its wireless controller (Intel 5300), but failed.
The controller is recognized by openSuSE, and I was able to configure it (I don't swear that I configured it correctly). Since it was seen without any action from me, apparently its driver is also in the kernel. But I was surprised that I didn't have to apply the firmware to it; I don't see how YaST could have managed that; perhaps that's why I have not been able to reach the network through this interface.
The configuration screen contained many more options than what I see in the Network Services screens, and I don't know how to find those configuration screens so I could post here what I did at that stage, the details of which I do not remember entirely.
Help? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
openSuSE (and hence yast) will detect the wireless card whether a firmware is available for it or not (it probably pulls the info from lspci). A better indication would be whether network manager detects wireless networks or even that the wireless card is enabled. You may want to check the dmesg output to see what messages come up for the wireless radio. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org