George Olson wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed 32 bit opensuse 11.1 on my Dell Latitude D820 in a swap partition (I think that is what you call it). Here is some background:

I had installed 64 bit opensuse 11.1 on my Lenovo 3000 V200. I had some problems with the hardware and for reasons I won't explain here, I took out the hard drive and put it in my Dell Latitude D820. I have windows xp installed, as before, and so I had to reinstall windows xp on my dell when I switched it over. I left the swap partition untouched so that when I had a chance I would be able to reinstall opensuse on the dell. So what I am saying is that I have the same hard drive as I had in my lenovo, with a newly installed windows XP, the same data drive, and then the swap partition left intact.

So this morning I went to install suse over my old installation, having just downloaded the 32bit version. I ran through the installation procedure and it all seems to work semi-ok. The grub loader works and I can boot up in windows or linux as I desire.

One thing that is interesting - 1 of the 2 applications that I had installed on SUSE on my Lenovo is still there - googleEarth. Thunderbird is no longer there, but googleEarth is. Also my openoffice data files are still there. So I think the file system was left somewhat intact (I clicked "new installation" but kept the disk partitions as the installer detected them).

However, in linux I cannot connect to the internet. Here on my windows platform it works fine, but in linux it doesn't seem to be working. Here are some things that I have found.

On my device manager in Windows, the network adapters are listed as follows: - 1394 Net Adapter - Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller - Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card

So I went into YaST -> Hardware Information -> Network Card and this is what was listed: - Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-card - NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (eth0)

Also I went into YaST -> Network Devices -> Network Settings and I got this warning: ******* Warning Network is currently controlled by Network Manager and its settings cannot be edited by YaST. To edit the settings, use Network Manager connection editor, or switch the network setup method to Traditional method with ifup. *******

When I click on the Network Manager and try to edit network settings, the same networks that I had detected on my Lenovo are still there. One of them is the same network I am trying to access here. It is a secured network and the access code was already entered, even though this is a new installation. However, I cannot seem to get the network card turned on and start detecting the network. My wireless switch on the computer is on, and I am able to access the internet freely from Windows, just not Linux.

Any help will be appreciated. If you can tell me where/how to get more information about my computer in order to help the troubleshooting just let me know!

Thanks George Olson

Your home directory was located on a separate partition from your last installation. The partition was detected as a home partition during the installation and used as such without any formatting, so all your personal data/settings should still be there. Since the Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card is made by broadcom, I assume the problem is that the driver is not installed. Most wireless drivers aren't by default, so you or someone else must have manually installed the driver for your last installation. (Commands are in quotes) Open your terminal, "su" into the root account then enter "install_bcm43xx_firmware". That should install the correct driver for your card, but you'll need a wired connection to the net. Enter "dmesg" if you want to see what's loaded. I think the driver installed should be b43, so you can enter "modprobe b43" to load it. It should load automatically at boot. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org