On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 00:19 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a Netgear RangeMax router, and I've been completely unable to connect to it under suse10.2.
I set it up under XP (dual-booting from this same laptop after struggling with it for several days using KWiFiManager, iwconfig, etc.
ipw3945 (the driver for my laptop's on-board Intel 3945 interface) appears to be running, but iwlist says there's no interface that supports scanning, and iwconfig says there's no interface with wireless extensions.
Everything I can find on the web implies that there should be an eth1 (eth0 is the on-board Ethernet interface), but there is no such.
I installed KWiFiManager hoping it could help, but all it says is "No Interface" in the titlebar, and "DISABLED" in the status area. If I try to bring up the configuration editor, it asks for the root password, then immediately returns to the main window with no message or error.
This same laptop works perfectly when I boot into XP, so I'm obviously not understanding something about setting up under suse.
The router is set up as "ad hoc", WPA-PSK (AES). Yast won't allow me to set the passphrase under ad hoc mode; it only accepts it under "managed" mode. Could this be the problem? What could I do to fix it?
Can anyone help?
John Perry
Ok, lets start with the obvious: No eth1 device - so the module (driver) is either not working or the interface is not up. Check that the module is loaded (do all this as su (root user)) (1)
lsmod (this will list the modules loaded, is ipw3945 in there) ps ax (check that ipw3945d in running)
(2) if it is:
ifup eth1
(3) if not: modprobe ipw3945 repeat (1) when successful - do (2) Just this for now. Also check the /var/log/messages log when loading the module, for any errors E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org