Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration

At 01:37 AM 6/1/2006 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:


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.

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

It worked! Thanks. As stated in a previous message, the complete -i line
is ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF.Once I've added ndiswrapper to
MODULES_LOAD_ON_BOOT, the power led greened at boot time.

Now, the iwconfig output looks like this:

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citlali:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:4096 B Fragment thr:4096 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

citlali:~ #
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Thus I have added the network card by using YaST>Network Devices>Network
Cards>Traditional Method with ifup>Add and choosing new Wireless PCMCIA
card. After restarting the computer, power led is green at startup, but it
seems that no wireless link is established.

After adding the PCMCIA wireless card, the iwconfig output is not exactly
the same: no access point is associated with wlan0, but a nichname appears

--
citlali:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"citlali"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4096 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

citlali:~ #
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Please, how could I debug/solve this issue?

Once again, thanks for your help,

Ricardo


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Ricardo Rodríguez
XEN, Resources Management


You say "it worked", but then you say it doesn't work.
I have broadcom ethernet on the mobo, and email doesn't
work from Linux 10.0, but I went to the ndiswrapper site
from Google, and I don't understand a damn thing there,
so you probably have the same problem. You have to
recompile the kernel--a real show-stopper there, I
think--and find a windows driver (good luck) and all
kinds of other esoteric things. I'm not an IT person,
I'm a retired RF engineer, and I can't deal with this
stuff, and now I see that Novel is taking even the
existing drivers out of Linux, so you'll have nothing.
I'm totally disgusted!

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