Re: [SLE] Problems with WiFi on OpenSUSE 10
- From: Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:41:33 +0200
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:25 +0000, John Pettigrew wrote:
> The dongle is labelled on the box as a Buffalo USB AirStation G54
> (WLI-U2-KG54). YaST recognised the dongle during installation and set it up as
> a MELCO WLI-U2-KG54 (Buffalo's website seems to call this device a
> WLI-U2-KG54-AI).
That's not really important. What chipset does it use?
> Started automatically at boot
I find "hotplug" or "cable connection" to be better suited to removeable
devices. That way, if you plug it in when the machine has already
booted, SUSE will recognise it, and start the network interface.
> However, if I use any of the tools that seem to be available to find a WiFi
> network (e.g. KWiFiManager), they say that there is no wireless interface, and
> hence cannot find the router.
What does iwconfig say?
> Any ideas on how to make this work? I'm fine with wired LANs (at home network
> level, anyway) but have never delved into wireless before.
If this is the one you have:
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-60-ProdID-WLIUSBG54.php
You're out of luck - it's Broadcom's chipset, which requires ndiswrapper
and the windows driver (which in turn requires an x86 CPU).
My recommendation, is install the kernel sources, cd
into /usr/src/linux, type make menuconfig.
Under Device Drivers ---> Network Device ---> Wireless LAN
and see what chipsets are listed. Then go out and find a card that uses
one of those chipsets.
According to:
http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-wireless;name=madwifi-driver
there is some hope for the madwifi driver (Atheros chipsets). I have a
Netgear WG511T card based on this chip and it work very very well, but I
haven't tried it on PPC.
Also be aware that with most cards you need the firmware too,
in /lib/firmware/ but if the card is supported on PPC, You should have
an option to download the firmware.
Hope that helps.
Hans
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