hey.. so im not a very lucky person with wireless.. actually i did have it working in suse 10.0

anyways im on 10.2 right now and i have a imspiron 6400.. I believe IPW drivers for the 3945 card is what i need..

im completely lost with this, and all the instructions are way to complex =P.

so i need the

ieee80211.1.2.15
ipw2200-1.2.0
ipw2200-fw-3.0

right? and i have the wireless tools..


so when i go to compile the first i get this.


linux-awfa:/home/faheja/ieee80211-1.2.15 # make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp for ieee80211 components...
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp/build//.config: No such file or directory
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such f ile or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp/build M=/home/faheja/ieee80211-1.2.15 mo dules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/bigsmp'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/bigsmp'
make: *** [modules] Error 2




can someone help me?

Why not just install them from the extra add on cd?

#>rpm -qa | grep ipw
ipw3945d-1.7.18-10.1
ipw-firmware-7-12.2

Should be good with just those 2..

You can copy and paste the following into a termial logged as su

rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/suse/i586/ipw3945d-1.7.18-29.i586.rpm http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/suse/noarch/ipw-firmware-7-31.noarch.rpm

Yep, ipw-firmware is all you need, plus a one reboot is recommended

i did that... and it went nice. and rebooted

how do i enable it?

i do a ifconfig and get no wireless..

Please post the output of:

rpm -qa | grep ipw

Also are you running "ifup" or "Managed Network".

please also do hwinfo and give us the output of the ethernet

29: PCI 300.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.286]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_170c
Unique ID: rBUF.BCnMZHQFpUF
Parent ID: 6NW+.WGY8iKV5q78
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x170c "BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x01af
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "b44"
Driver Modules: "b44"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xdcbfe000-0xdcbfffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 217 (3791 events)
HW Address: 00:15:c5:ac:9d:80
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d0000170Csv00001028sd000001AFbc02sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: b44 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #23 (PCI bridge)




and..

linux-awfa:/home/faheja # rpm -qa |grep ipw
ipw3945d-1.7.18-29
ipw-firmware-7-31
linux-awfa:/home/faheja #



im using a managed network.. i really dont know what ifup is?


thanks again!

- Jon

Thanks, that looks to be your onboard Broadcom driver..

What model Dell are you running? D820 here.

its a inspiron 6400..

ive never had problems with my other laptops getting wireless to work heh

ok post output of:

su
iwconfig

su
ifconfig eth0

su
ifconfig eth1

Thank you

linux-awfa:/home/faheja # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

linux-awfa:/home/faheja #



eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:C5:AC:9D:80
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:feac:9d80/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10978 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3741773 (3.5 Mb) TX bytes:1132693 (1.0 Mb)
Interrupt:217

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6564 (6.4 Kb) TX bytes:6564 (6.4 Kb)

linux-awfa:/home/faheja #


linux-awfa:/home/faheja # ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:C5:AC:9D:80
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:feac:9d80/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3742797 (3.5 Mb) TX bytes:1132693 (1.0 Mb)
Interrupt:217


linux-awfa:/home/faheja # ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Go into YaST --> Network Devices --> Network Card

And make sure it's configured.

ive been doing that.. but it just says wireless.. theres really no options unless im missing something..

any other ideas?