Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:04 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
Hi all,

I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device
in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.

I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a
Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0
adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was
detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net
with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.

lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find
at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List.
Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller
must be installed prior to being able to see it.

I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.

ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular
situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper
packages.

Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the
Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:

But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver
using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native
drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).

As root:

ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD)
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)

I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line
in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.

One other point I would like to make regarding the "new" NetworkManager
and the Linksys PCMCIA card WPC54G use the older style of setup instead.
NM does not work properly yet with this card if you are using WEP
security (at least not in KDE).
I use ifplugd for the wired connection and "on hotplug" for the
wireless. Plugging and unplugging either works well.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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