wireless on a thinkpad
 

I installed SuSE 10.0 on my Thinkpad Z60m and everything went beautifully until i tried to connect to the internet via my wireless card. I have A Pentium 740 (@1.73 gHz) with a gig of ram and a 40 gb HDD. My Wireless card is a Intel pro wireless 2915ABG with a mini PCI adapter. The wireless router i am trying to connect to is a Linksys using 802.11 B
Ive used Windows for ten years mainly with office software. I have no experience using a command line, but am willing to learn. Now i know there are several areas specifically dedicated to wireless and SuSE but after reading for five hours i have not found what i am looking for. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated; or, if your up for a challenge, i really need to be walked through this, step by step. Thx

hi there and welcome to LQ,
i give you some tips where you can start....
first you need to check if the module is up..
if you get a positive answer it means that the module is loaded.
you can double check that with
bring the interface up...
note that the netmask and the IP can change.
second: ping your router...
or whatever IP your router has...
after that add your router as default gateway...
everything from the top of the head....
hope it gives you some light...
regards,
slackie1000

ok the lsmod command worked and it looks like i have drivers and firmware, next i typed iwconfig and it gave me this...
lo no wireless extentions
eth0 no wireless extentions
sit0 no wireless extentions
and last... ifconfig $your_interface 192.168.X.X netmask 255.255.255.0 up
is your_interface the name of my primary user, for example: jdoe

this is helping already, thank you

hi there,
welcome mate!
the iwconfig commmand should give you back the interface. somehow the module is not connected to the hardware.
i am pretty sure that suse has somehow a method to link it through YAST. Sorry i am not a Suse user.
what you can do is : create an alias in your /etc/modprobe.conf file...
what i mean with $your_interface is wlan0 now. it is the name of the wireless interface.
regards,
slackie1000

is that a "centrino" model you have? Does your network card show up in YaST-network devices-network card? If so, maybe the following can help.
I have a T42 thinkpad and got my wireless to work like this.

-go to YaST, click on software management
-search for 'ipw'
-tick the package 'ipw-firmware' and click on accept and finish.
-configure your wireless adapter in YaST-network devices- network card

If the 'ipw-firmware' package does not show up, you will have to add the packman repository to your installation sources. You'll find a sticky thread in this subforum how that is done
I am quite new to SuSE myself, so I hope I can be of any help.

edit: the instructions on how to install additional repositories are in the SuSE/Novell subforum of course.

ok, i tried some stuff, and made some progress, but screwed something up bad along the way. I couldnt log in as root anymore, the system would lock if i tried. So im back, with a fresh install and starting over. Id like to thank everyone for their help, i have made progress (the wireless led was on right before it froze ). Well, im going to walk back through the steps, very carefully.