Re: [opensuse] NIC installation -- SOLVED!!!!!!

I FOUND IT!! There was nothing wrong with the Ethernet card or the wireless card (aka Network card). The glitch was in the BIOS. The BIOS, naturally, has a checkbox for "Enable Internal Wireless WLAN", and this was CHECKED, as it should be. It also has a checkbox for ""Enable Internal Bluetooth", which I had checked because, although I have no Bluetooth devices now, I had intended to acquire a headset. Since both are checked, and there is no indication whatever that they are mutually exclusive, I thought I might as well prepare for the future by enabling both. They are, however, mutually exclusive, and this became clear after I unchecked Bluetooth on a hunch and spruced up the Network Devices window, I am able to communicate with the 'Net by hard connection to the router, but not by wireless. I can live with this for the time being. The paradox is that disenabling Bluetooth in favor of the _wireless_card_ has permitted the Ethernet card to become visible, but has not affected the wireless card. That is not the only bug in the BIOS: The BIOS behavior of the NUMLOCK key interacts with the behavior as set by Control Center > Peripherals > Keyboard in an unexpected way. My gratitude to everyone who tried to help me solve the problem. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] NIC installation: What is this error? Date: Friday 09 October 2009 From: Stan Goodman To: Andreas Jaeger At 07:13:34 on Friday Friday 09 October 2009, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

On Friday 09 October 2009 00:13:19 Stan Goodman wrote:

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At 23:41:34 on Thursday Thursday 08 October 2009, phanisvara das

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On Friday 09 October 2009 03:01:01 am Stan Goodman wrote:

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The Module Name field must be the one you suggested I fill with rtl8169; it was empty, and I filled it. When I closed the window (Next > OK) and opened again, both fields were again empty.

are you sure that driver is installed on your system?

I am sure of nothing at this point, including my name. What I know is that:

I got the name of the Ethernet card from the hardware list

I downloaded a driver of that name from RealTek

I followed the instructions given in the readme that came with the driver accurately, with help for places that I didn't

The instructions give diections for texting whether the driver is in fact installed. The response from the system looked OK, except I remarked at the time that it failed to call out the name of a device (eth0), which it was expected to do.

So no, I don't think the driver is properly installed, but I don't know why not.

Someone suggested that I check the connection. The connection is OK.

Please run as root "hwinfo --netcard" and send the output.

29: PCI c00.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4315 Unique ID: zb5c.pDIlKSkvxw6 Parent ID: qTvu.8Makl3iDVc3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:0c:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4315 "BCM4312 802.11b/g" SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x000c "Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" Revision: 0x01 Memory Range: 0xf69fc000-0xf69fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 10 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004315sv00001028sd0000000Cbc02sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge) But the paragraph above is about the wireless card, while the current problem is about the Ethernet card. I'm not clear why the above is interesting in this connection. For the record, here is the paragraph about the Ethernet card: 72: None 00.0: 10701 Ethernet [Created at net.124] Unique ID: fLK9.ndpeucax6V1 SysFS ID: /class/net/pan0 Hardware Class: network interface Model: "Ethernet network interface" Driver: "bridge" Device File: pan0 HW Address: 22:84:97:19:2f:1a Link detected: yes Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown You can see that it doesn't know anything about the card, which makes sense because Network Setup > Overview, while announcing the correct name of the card, says "No hwinfo". I notice also the line SysFS ID: /class/net/pan0 showing that the system thinks the card is a Bluetooth device. And here is the same paragraph before the beginning of driver installation, in which it is clear that the system does know what the card is, and that it is not treating it as a Bluetooth device: 96: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10ec_8168' pci.subsys_vendor_id = 4136 (0x1028) info.subsystem = 'pci' pci.device_class = 2 (0x2) info.product = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller' pci.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10ec_8168' pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:09:00.0' pci.vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_294a' info.vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:09:00.0' pci.product = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller' info.linux.driver = 'r8169' pci.subsys_vendor = 'Dell' pci.product_id = 33128 (0x8168) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) pci.vendor_id = 4332 (0x10ec) linux.subsystem = 'pci' pci.subsys_product_id = 1026 (0x402)

Also, check the openSUSE 11.2 LiveCD and if that one has working ethernet, either install the 11.2 kernel or use 11.2 directly,

I don't have the v11.2 LiveCD, and it would take the better part of a day to download it. Is it possible to d/l the kernel from somewhere and install it?

Andreas

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