Ricardo wrote:

I have completely installed Suse for first time (after almost 5 years using other OS) and everything worked fine out of the box but my wireless network card.

I am running suse on my laptop HP Pavilion zt300 with an Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 (modprobe ipw2100) Network card.

What should I do?

We need a bit more information. 1. What version of SUSE? Are you running 10.1 or earlier? 2. What desktop manager (KDE, Enlightenment, Blackbox...) are you using? 3. What is "not working" about it? Do you have the card detected in YaST? Is your other NIC working (the wired one)? 4. What is your internet connection? LAN > DSL/Cable? Have you checked here - http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/hp.html? Your ZT300 isn't listed but others may be similarly configured. AFAIK, the Intel 2xxx cards are easily detected and run fine. Both my laptops run variants of those cards and have no issues. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com -- 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

According to http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/index_group.html, the package is supposed to be under PackageGrupo/Hardware/Other but it is not listed. help would be appreciated it. On 7/18/06, Ricardo wrote:

I have completely installed Suse for first time (after almost 5 years using other OS) and everything worked fine out of the box but my wireless network card.

I am running suse on my laptop HP Pavilion zt300 with an Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 (modprobe ipw2100) Network card.

What should I do?

On 7/19/06, Ken Schneider wrote:

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According to http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/index_group.html,

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 19:46 -0500, Ricardo wrote: the

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package is supposed to be under PackageGrupo/Hardware/Other but it is not listed.

help would be appreciated it.

NO top posting please.

Try searching in YaST, search for ipw or 2100. YaST should find it that way.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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I did use YaST and search for 'ipw' or '2100' and couldn't find any. what else do you suggest?

On 7/19/06, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

Ricardo wrote:

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Try searching in YaST, search for ipw or 2100. YaST should find it that way. I did use YaST and search for 'ipw' or '2100' and couldn't find any. what else do you suggest?

http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-s...

pin ipw2100 would have helped.

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Joe: I got the rpm file from the suggested link, but can't find how to run it. I tried with a few choices under yast/software and couldn't make it run. can I install the rpm package from command line?, what would be the command and parameters needed and afterwards process.

Hi! Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 05:55 schrieb Ricardo:

Joe: I got the rpm file from the suggested link, but can't find how to run it. I tried with a few choices under yast/software and couldn't make it run.

can I install the rpm package from command line?, what would be the command and parameters needed and afterwards process.

Do you actually read the answers given to you? http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Jul/1953.html That one is from Tuesday and contains the explanation why you could not find the package in yast as well as the command for the command-line to install the package. Sven -- 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 7/19/06, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:25, Ricardo wrote:

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More detailed explanation of what Im doing when trying to install: ipw_firmware_7_10.noarch.rpm

Hi Ricardo,

You can install the rpm package from command line as follows:

As root:

"rpm -Uhv ipw_firmware_7_10.noarch.rpm --test"

The package management program 'rpm' will process the installation without actually writing anything to disk (the '--test' parameter). If you don't see any errors and the text-based progress bar hits '100%', repeat the command without the '--test' parameter.

Then run 'ldconfig' Then run 'SuSEconfig'

Logout as root, close the shell, launch Konqueror in filesystem browsing mode, navigate to the file 'ipw_firmware_7_10.noarch.rpm' and click on it. Konqueror will open the package so you can inspect the contents. Ignore the 'Install with YaST' button. Look for the 'Files' tab, click on it and study the list of files. It'll list every file contained in the package, including the paths each has been installed to. Make note of the location(s) of any README or HowTo or other documentation. Navigate to them and hopefully you'll be able to take it from there.

hth & regards,

Carl

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Sven: When clicking on the link I am taken to a page whith two more links. the second one allows me to download a file (which I did) and the first one takes me to a site with a list of files and I'm not sure what to do there. What I did under InstallationSource/SoftwareManagement/YaST is adding the ftp site to the median containing software catalog. It took a long time (more than 20 mins) when clicking on finish and ended up with a message: 'Source synchronization with ZMD failed. Save changes anyway?' and I pressed 'Yes'. Joe: When right clicking the file and selecting I got the following error message: 'Error: Following packages haven't been found on the medium: ipw-firmware'. Carl: I was able to run the command and my wireless lan is now working. I was not able to run the 'Idconfig' = command not found. Thank you all for your help. I think that overall I should have a problem with my media for updates. In the past (Suse 7.X) Yast will go online and look for updates, this feature doesn't seem to be working now. Something similar exist with Mandriva (I'm comming back to SuSE after using Mandriva for a year or so and long time with windows). I did not get the SuSE from a box so I do not have any documentation. What would be the official reference guide? Is it included on the downloaded images? should I check and online site for it? Thank you again.