[opensuse] No wifi on Dell Inspiron mini
Hi all, I borrowed a Dell Inspiron Mini netbook for next week. I managed to install oS 12.1 with KDE from an USB stick. There are some problems however, the most severe is the lack of wifi. I cannot config the touchpad, apparantly the oS does not recognize it as a laptop. Did anyone out there succeded with those things? Is there any experience with that netbook and other distros? Thanks for any help: Albert Oszkó -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Friday August 31 2012 12:31:23 Oszkó Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I borrowed a Dell Inspiron Mini netbook for next week. I managed to install oS 12.1 with KDE from an USB stick. There are some problems however, the most severe is the lack of wifi. I cannot config the touchpad, apparantly the oS does not recognize it as a laptop.
Did anyone out there succeded with those things? Is there any experience with that netbook and other distros?
Thanks for any help: Albert Oszkó
On a Asus EEEPC, I did not succed to use wifi using KDE3 graphics tools, BUT it worked using command line (iwconfig , iwlist, wpa_supplicant). Try it :) Dsant, against wifi / pro wires -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/31/2012 06:31 AM, Oszkó Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I borrowed a Dell Inspiron Mini netbook for next week. I managed to install oS 12.1 with KDE from an USB stick. There are some problems however, the most severe is the lack of wifi. I cannot config the touchpad, apparantly the oS does not recognize it as a laptop.
Did anyone out there succeded with those things? Is there any experience with that netbook and other distros?
There's a blog about this on lizards.o.o , unfortunately I cannot connect at this point to provide the link. Just look in my blogs. HTH, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 31/08/12 17:45, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 08/31/2012 06:31 AM, Oszkó Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I borrowed a Dell Inspiron Mini netbook for next week. I managed to install oS 12.1 with KDE from an USB stick. There are some problems however, the most severe is the lack of wifi. I cannot config the touchpad, apparantly the oS does not recognize it as a laptop.
Did anyone out there succeded with those things? Is there any experience with that netbook and other distros?
There's a blog about this on lizards.o.o , unfortunately I cannot connect at this point to provide the link.
Just look in my blogs.
HTH, Robert
post the output of /sbin/lspci -nnk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
post the output of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
Here it is: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] 00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: ata_piix 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4] Kernel driver in use: r8169 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Well, it turned out that the solution is relatively simple: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/#openSUSE Best regards, Albert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Thanks, I will look after it. In the meantime I learnt that the wifi problem is caused by the poor linux support of the broadcom chip. I also read that this netbook allegedly works without flaws with ubuntu 10.04, a more than 2 years old OS! If I fail with opensuse, I'll give it a try with Linux MInt. Best regards, Albert 2012-08-31 18:45 keltezéssel, Robert Schweikert írta:
On 08/31/2012 06:31 AM, Oszkó Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I borrowed a Dell Inspiron Mini netbook for next week. I managed to install oS 12.1 with KDE from an USB stick. There are some problems however, the most severe is the lack of wifi. I cannot config the touchpad, apparantly the oS does not recognize it as a laptop.
Did anyone out there succeded with those things? Is there any experience with that netbook and other distros?
There's a blog about this on lizards.o.o , unfortunately I cannot connect at this point to provide the link.
Just look in my blogs.
HTH, Robert
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/31/2012 01:27 PM, Oszkó Albert wrote:
Thanks, I will look after it. In the meantime I learnt that the wifi problem is caused by the poor linux support of the broadcom chip. I also read that this netbook allegedly works without flaws with ubuntu 10.04, a more than 2 years old OS!
That's because the mini was available from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed and Dell had the rights to distribute the then proprietary Broadcom driver. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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