Hi all, I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A215-S4807), and am dual-booting Vista and OpenSUSE 10.2. The laptop has an Atheros AR5007EG wireless NIC. After searching around, I tried installing the ndiswrapper module and the windows drivers, and 'ndiswrapper -l' states that everything is okay. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the connection to work. I'm new to setting up a wireless connetion in linux, so I'm not sure if the driver isn't working correctly, or if I'm just not setting up the connection correctly. 'iwconfig' shows wlan0, so I try:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name"
after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc. I then try:
ifconfig wlan0 up ifup wlan0
I get a warning that NetworkManager is being notified to set up the DHCP connection, but I don't seem to actually connect -- I can open up a browser and I just get a 'page not found' error. What should I be doing to test this connection? Also, the NetworkManager icon in the system tray still says that there is a connection to eth0, not wlan0. Thanks for any help, -Sam -- -------------------- J. Samuel Preston Research Associate Center for Advanced Engineering Environments Old Dominion University Research Foundation -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org