Re: Failing to get wireless card working on Toshiba + Suse

From: Jeremy Russell (spam4me_at_jeremyrussell.co.uk)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:44:18 +0100

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:02:49 -0700, Perfect Reign
<theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:18:44 +0100, someone posing as Jeremy Russell
>pretended that someone gave a rat's ass and spewed out:
>
>
>>>You can get 9.3 here: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Download
>>
>> Thanks - downloading now ...
>

I tried the download route; that failed for unknown reasons, so I
bought a copy of Suse 9.3 Professional. I'm still suffering
intermittently from wireless issues. I installed the software from
the DVD, which seemed to be going fine - it recognised my wireless
card, connected to the Novell site, downloaded updates, all as
expected. Once the install was over and Linux had rebooted, all
wireless connectivity had gone again :(

I reinstalled from the DVD and this time, the wireless card wouldn't
permit a connection even during the installation. This time, I called
Suse support and was advised that the installation support didn't
cover wireless networking.

Accordingly, I tried once more - restarted a fresh install, got an
update connection again, and after a reboot, got stuck without a
connection once more. Suse support were more forthcoming this time -
I was advised to download a couple of rpm files from the Suse FTP
site, which I've duly done. When I try to install both the advised
packages, the 'rpm' utility reports that both patches are already
installed.

Suse support have now advised me to repeat the installation (this must
be like the 5th time) and NOT to download updates during the install.
I did try this - the connection didn't work during the install again -
therefore I've given up for a while.

Should I be concerned that I was told not to download the latest
patches, do you think? This won't be a production system, just one
for me to play around with, therefore security is not a major issue.

More importantly, can anyone shed any light on why my wireless card
(standard Toshiba Satellite M30 with Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG built
in) might be intermittently working? This is a dual boot, WinXP
system and the card itself is faultless under Windows.

Thanks,

Jeremy

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