Newbie wants to connect to internet with Linux

Xessa · 08-08-2009, 03:39 PM

Hello guys.

I have 54Mbps Wireless USB Adapter(Everest WL0123) i can't connect to internet with linux using my adapter.

I can configure things in windows but i'm totally new to linux and from this time i want to pass more time with linux.

Can anybody help me about how to connect to internet?

Thanks from now

zuzoa · 08-08-2009, 03:41 PM

What distribution are you using? Most will come with a program to help you manage your network connections.

markush · 08-08-2009, 03:48 PM

Please open a Terminal an post the output of

Quote:

/sbin/ifconfig

Markus

mag1strate · 08-08-2009, 03:59 PM

For wireless devices you must install the drivers for it manually. I had a netgear USB adapter and I had to find the .inf and .sys files for that specific adapter. Then you must use a program called ndiswrapper. What distro are you using?

If your using ubuntu, which you might go to this website https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

If your using a different one than go to the community site for you distro and type in ndiswrapper.

It also maybe something internal, so you might want to still try what markush says.

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Xessa · 08-08-2009, 05:18 PM

markush when i type what you said i see

wlan0 and wmaster0

i am using openSUSE

Edit : Guys i have the CD for the USB adapter and i have linux driver for the USB adapter in the CD...

I don't know how to install the driver in linux. What are the commands and which file is the file that i have to execute for the execution process.

mag1strate · 08-08-2009, 05:31 PM

awesome Xessa, I'am using openSUSE as well. Here is a link with alot of the information you need:

http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper

You will need to use that CD of yours b/c it has the .inf and .sys files in it.

Just follow the information on the link and you will be on your way to using linux on the internet!

Xessa · 08-09-2009, 04:16 AM

At last it worked. but i now have another problem...(i'm sending this post from openSUSE

)
But in boot up; i see two linux versions now.

openSUSE(default)
openSUSE(pae)

it happened after i installed ndiswrapper.

mag1strate · 08-09-2009, 08:40 AM

pae means Physical Address Extension, here is the wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

It just lets x86 computers use all 4 gigs of RAM on a 32-bit system. I've never seen it before, but I don't think it is a problem.

You shouldn't worry much about it, just use the normal default setting, but if anything wrong happens, start a new thread about that.

Xessa · 08-09-2009, 09:00 AM

Thanks for the information. Helped me a lot, at least i can connect to internet now.

By the way i can't use openSUSE(default), because it does not boot and give me errors.

Now i just use pae and internet works fine.

Thank you again for helping me ...