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

From: Jeremy Russell (spam4me_at_jeremyrussell.co.uk)
Date: 09/04/05 

Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:05:46 +0100

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 06:27:33 -0700, PerfectReign
<theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> And now, I can't get the wireless working again, even after a complete
>> re-install. And the free installation support apparently doesn't
>> cover wireless cards, dammit.
>
>Oh, fukk! What happened?

Your guess is as good as mine :)

>Here's my setup. I have DSL going into a Linksys router. The router has
>one system (Win2k/Suse 9.2) directly connected.
>
>The other system is my laptop running only SuSE 9.3. (I do have WinXP but
>have only booted it twice so far since July.)

I have a newly bought Netgear modem/router/wireless access point - my
old kit died last week also :( I have a W2K laptop and the offending
machine (WinXP) both happily connecting under their various Windows
OS's, plus my wife's and daughter's W2K laptops.
>
>Both systems use DHCP to obtain connections. I actually plan to hardcode
>the IPs and put them on a table to validate the MAC addresses, but will
>get to it sooner or later. :)

I've hardwired the IP addresses as 192.168.0.x for all - the new
Netgear router does show all IP/MAC addresses as connected, again if
each PC is running Windows.

>It has a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG set as the wireless card.
>The intel is configured as follows...
>
>Hardware Configuratin Name: bus-pci-0000:02:03.0
>Module Name: ipw2200
>
>Device activation: At Boot Time
>User Controlled: Checked
>Firewall Zone: Disabled.

Ditto.

>Good luck. You got it working once, so at least you know it CAN work.
Yep - that's what's giving me hope. There's apparently something in
the downloaded updates to Linux that unsets a value somewhere ... it's
a matter of tracking it down. Strange that NOT updating during the
install, following a successful Internet connection check, should also
'break' the wireless connection though.

I'll continue playing and report back for interest ...

JR