Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:02 -0400, Ed Harrison wrote:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
Ed Harrison wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

Mark Misulich wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

I want to connect my Aspire 5315, provided with an Ethernet
Network Card,
In Vista it's no problem but in suse 10.3 I miss a Yast module for
such a job.
Can anybody tell me the steps I have to take to come to a solution?
I'm a user of OpenSUSE sinds long, but no developer.
Thanks in advance.
André den Oudsten


Here is a link to a page which links to multiple methods of getting
wireless going in Opensuse:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=22475

Personally, I use ndiswrapper to install my WinXP or Vista driver ,
and it works great.
Here is a link to the various howtos:

http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/

Use the 10.2 instructions for Opensuse 10.3. You have to install
and use knetwork manager to have a program to detect the various
wifi networks available.

Mark

From the packman.links2linux.org site I could install wiki-radar for
10.3, but trieing to start it nothing happened!!
KnetworkManager as well as NetworkManager are installed, but I can't
get them to work

What to do?

André

I haven't been following this thread, but had a time getting wifi up.

1. Is there a module loaded? iwconfig as root will show available
wireless devices. Without a loaded module AND its firmware, you may
see a device; but without both you will never see a network no matter
what you use. At least this is the case with my BCM4318.

2. Assuming no module is loaded, do a hwinfo --netcard to see what
you have.

3. Mine is a BCM4318, so I installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and
wireless-tools.

4. firmware was installed using /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.


modprobe bcm43xx gave me a wireless card when invoking iwconfig. It
is not wlan0 as expected, but eth1. Still connects and works.

Ed Harrison

I ran (as root) iwconfig , hwinfo --netcard and lspci -vvv.
In Yast Hardware I also found something
See attachment

Sorry for the lenght of the document, but shortening by me could be
the wrong way

I'm very curieus,

André
You have an Atheros AR5006EG which is reported to work with madwifi. See
url below.

http://madwifi.org/suse/10.3/i586/ All new as of May 6, 2008.

You probably need madwifi madwifi-devel and the appropriate kernel
module based on the kernel you are running(it looks like these are for
kernel 2.6.22.16).

After you get them installed, I know nothing further. Never worked with
atheros wireless.

Ed

Actually he can fire me off an e-mail, I have an Aspire and am using
the mad-wifi (AMD64 kernel), I'd be happy to go over it with him. It'd
help me too;).

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