Re: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

Just do

ndiswrapper -l

to get the name of the driver and then use

ndiswrapper -r driver_name


On 5/16/07, James D. Parra <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 5/16/07, James D. Parra <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 5/16/07, James D. Parra <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is
> >
> > su
> > pccardctl eject
> > pccardctl insert
> > rcnetwork restart
> >
> > Basically, I just want to get the card to restart itself, and then get
> > reinitialized.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Have a Linksys wireless card using the ndiswrapper for the driver.
> Although
> > it has bee working like a charm for the past few months, a couple of
days
> > ago it could no longer see wireless networks. The Power LED is lit on
the
> > card, however the Link LED doesn't flicker periodically as though there
is
> > no TCP traffic or even a 'heart beat' flicker.
> >
> > 'ifconfig shows the MAC address of the card and ndiswrapper -l shows,
> > 'lstinds driver present, hardware present'.
> >
> > Any ideas on how I can fix this?
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Thank you for the info. Sadly, that didn't work. Even a reboot doesn't
fix
> > the problem. Restarting the network shows wlan0 device: Wireless
Interface
> > and then it backgrounds the DHCP request, however I never see the LED
> > flicker on the card. It is as though no packets are getting to the card.
> The
> > card works when I boot into windows, but I don't really want to do that.
> >
> > What else can I do to trouble shoot this? Anything to look for in the
> logs?
> >
> Try running
>
> dmesg | grep wlan0
>
> and
>
> dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
>
> and see what shows up
>
> ~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks, tried those and everything looks good. I am using
> Kiniternet-Internet Tool to locate Access Points. Is there a CLI tool I
> could use to locate an Access Point or, perhaps, some other tool?

>I use KNetworkManager. Not sure if that would help really. Have you
>tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it?

I don't see KNetworkManager as a selection in the drop down menu as a
command. How do I uninstall the driver? I know how to install it.

Again, thank you.

~James
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