Re: Can't get WiFi to work
- From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:28:33 -0700
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:46:38 -0500, Jim R wrote:
ray wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:53:12 -0500, Jim R wrote:
I just installed Suse 10.0 as dual-boot with Win/2000 on an IBM Thinkpad
T23. I am trying to use a Linksys WPC11 v4 pcmcia. Under Win/2000, it
works perfectly (same machine, same AP, same WEP encryption, etc.)
When I try to use it under Suse, then try to , I get "unknown host
www.yahoo.com". If I ping local addesses on my home network, i get
"network is unreachable". (127.0.0.1 pings just fine, thank-you). If I
try to browse, I get www.cnn.com could not be found.
If I plug in an ethernet cable, all network activity is normal.
Following are some settings that I think might be informative. If
anybody else has something else I should try, I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
73 de Jim
I don't understand what you've done. If you just plugged it in and
expected it to work, you may be disappointed. Have you tried ndiswrapper?
Simply install it and read the ndiswrapper man page - it's not a difficult
process, but does require a few steps.
I first plugged it in and configured it in Yast. No go. I searched
some newsgroups, and a couple of posts suggested ndiswrapper.
I installed v 1.2-2 from the opensuse distro using Yast. Still nothing.
There is no man page for ndiswrapper, so I will go off to search the
web, but if you have any other suggestions in the meantime, feel free to
share.
Jim
If you do a web search (linux wireless, maybe) you can turn up a database
that includes a LOT of cards. My laptop came with a nondescript 802.11b
card which I could not get to work. I got a belkin F5D7010 which I easily
set up using ndiswrapper. It is a fairly simple process, but requires
three or four steps which I don't recall. try just running 'ndiswrapper'
first - basically you need to copy the MS drivers somewhere, install them
for ndiswrapper and then modprobe ndiswrapper to load the kernel module.
.
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