Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:43 -0500, Jim wrote:
Jim wrote:
I installed ndiswrapper and loaded the driver, and ndiswrapper reports:
Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
ndiswrapper -m Loads the module.
iwconfig displays: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:2A:BB:7E Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
When I go into yast and select "network card" it does not detect the wireless card. I've tried a number of options to set it up manually but nothing worked.
What are you looking for when you look, in YaST, for the network card? You don't state which version of SuSE you are using, VERY important. In 10.0 after you go into YaST-->Network Card, (and then select Add) one of the choices in the pull down list is wireless, select it. For the module name select ndiswrapper (ignore -Select from List- as it won't be there and the list is only for supplied drivers) and select next. Setup the rest of your settings and select Next. Fill in the rest of your settings for your wireless setup and you should then be good to go. If this is a hot-pluggable card select there is a place to select that as well.
I'm running 9.3. In yast, I select "network Card" The automatic detect does not find the card. I have tried both configure other and add options. They both resolve to the same place. I did select wireless, and set module name to ndiswrapper. This is a built-in broadcom wireless network card. I even changed the static-0 to reflect the exact configuration as reported by lspci using the working eth0 as a model, in the ifcfg-wlan0 configuration file. Jim.