[opensuse] suse 10.3 can't get wireless to work
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success. jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Well, why dont you start telling whats your network interface model
and vendor? Lots of cards needs firmware or proprietary software to
make it work. In taht case you would need the nonoss-biArch cd iso
too, maybe.
Best regards
Marcio
On 10/5/07, Joe Zien
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success.
jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Friday 05 October 2007 11:49:36 am Joe Zien wrote:
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success.
jozien
Go to YaST --> Network Devices --> Network Card --> Global Options --> Traditional Method with ifup Does it work? What chipset are you using? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri Oct 05, 2007 02:49PM, Joe Zien wrote:
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success.
jozien
I have a T60 as well. The wireless card is a: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection I had to change the driver to "iwl3945" and reboot. Once I did that the card works (in that I can see and occasionally connect to Wireless Access Points) but this is *very* spotty and the times I *am* able to connect, the connection drops quite often. This did not happen with prior to the 10.3 update and subsequent driver change. The WAP in question is in my home environment and other machines (including other T60s running other OSs) are able to connect without issue. -- Cheers, Trey ---- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. --Aristotle Linux valkyrie 2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp i686 GNU/Linux 6:47pm up 1 day 3:31, 5 users, load average: 0.37, 0.34, 0.33
Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Fri Oct 05, 2007 02:49PM, Joe Zien wrote:
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success.
jozien
I have a T60 as well. The wireless card is a:
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
I had to change the driver to "iwl3945" and reboot. Once I did that the card works (in that I can see and occasionally connect to Wireless Access Points) but this is *very* spotty and the times I *am* able to connect, the connection drops quite often.
This did not happen with prior to the 10.3 update and subsequent driver change. The WAP in question is in my home environment and other machines (including other T60s running other OSs) are able to connect without issue.
How do you change the driver to iw13945? jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 October 2007 10:31:31 pm Joe Zien wrote:
Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Fri Oct 05, 2007 02:49PM, Joe Zien wrote:
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5 and pclinuxos 2007 recognized the wireless and I was on the internet immediately so my wireless is ok. How do I get suse 10.3 to recognize my wireless? I trie to use yast2 to try to get my wireless working, no success.
jozien
I have a T60 as well. The wireless card is a:
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
I had to change the driver to "iwl3945" and reboot. Once I did that the card works (in that I can see and occasionally connect to Wireless Access Points) but this is *very* spotty and the times I *am* able to connect, the connection drops quite often.
This did not happen with prior to the 10.3 update and subsequent driver change. The WAP in question is in my home environment and other machines (including other T60s running other OSs) are able to connect without issue.
How do you change the driver to iw13945?
jozien
You can change your network method from using KNetworkManager to the Traditional ifup. It seems to be a problem with the ipw3945 driver, and hand shaking between the AP and Network Manager I have the same card, and mine works by using the killswitch to turn off, then turn the card back on. Hopefully this gets fixed shortly in the driver. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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