new at wireless configuration
Hi all, I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1. I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0 adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine. lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller must be installed prior to being able to see it. I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source. ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper packages. Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output: -- Last login: Tue May 30 13:53:31 2006 Have a lot of fun... citlali:~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. citlali:~ # -- As far as I can understand, lo and eth0 are the local loopback and the onboard ethernet interface. Please, 1. what sit0 does stand for? 2. is this what is expected to get from a iwconfig considering no wireless driver is loaded 3. what do I need to install/use the Conceptronic USB Wireless adapter? Thank you very much for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
Hi all,
I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.
I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0 adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.
lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller must be installed prior to being able to see it.
I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.
ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper packages.
Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:
But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0). As root: ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD) ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver) I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:04 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
Hi all,
I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.
I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0 adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.
lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller must be installed prior to being able to see it.
I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.
ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper packages.
Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:
But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
As root:
ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD) ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
One other point I would like to make regarding the "new" NetworkManager and the Linksys PCMCIA card WPC54G use the older style of setup instead. NM does not work properly yet with this card if you are using WEP security (at least not in KDE). I use ifplugd for the wired connection and "on hotplug" for the wireless. Plugging and unplugging either works well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
Hi all,
I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.
I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0 adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.
lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller must be installed prior to being able to see it.
I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.
ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper packages.
Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:
But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
As root:
ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD) ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
That is not quite true. I am using madwifi, granted an older version. Under SUSE 10.0, it found my card and is working pretty well. Now if I can only get the wpa - supplicant back to work (worked in the original install). -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 19:53 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
As root:
ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD) ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
That is not quite true. I am using madwifi, granted an older version. Under SUSE 10.0, it found my card and is working pretty well. Now if I can only get the wpa - supplicant back to work (worked in the original install).
It is true for ndiswrapper which you are not using. Please do not compare apples to oranges then want the apple to be the same as the orange. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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