Trying to Setup Home Wireless

michalng · 12-29-2005, 08:33 AM

I've managed to convince a friend to load his new computer (currently at my place) with SUSE10 which I am currently using.

The problem is that I am using a 56K dialup while he is using ADSL wireless at his home, which means I have little experience with wireless.

Presently, when in Windows, we noticed that there is several networks and we can use the network using the "any" network setting. Setting up using his SSID+WEP does not work.

But in SUSE, I had tried but do not know to setup the wireless connection.

I had tried going into Yast->Network Devices->Network card to setup. Also setting the driver for the Netgear USB adapter using ndiswrapper without problem.
Netapplet indicates that there are not network available (but we detect some in windows).

As I do not have any wireless experience, I am totally lost. I suspect I had setup wrongly as this is my first time with wireless.

XavierP · 12-29-2005, 08:40 AM

The first 3 commands we need to see out put from are:
lspci - so we can see if the card is detected
ifconfig - so we can see if it's getting an ip address
iwconfig - so we can see what settings are being used

If you open a console and run those commands (you may need to su to root) and then copy and paste them (surround each one with [ code][/code ] tags (remove the spaces), we can see where the problem may lie.

Welcome to LQ

michalng · 12-30-2005, 01:51 AM

lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 11)
00:04.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International HSF 56k Data/Fax/Voice Modem (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)

ifconfig

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:B5:8C:12:BA
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:fe8c:12ba/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:9

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:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:9728 (9.5 Kb)  TX bytes:9728 (9.5 Kb)

iwconfig

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ndiswrapper -l

Code:

Installed ndis drivers:
eu3nic  driver present
netwg11t        driver present

There is definitely no connection

but as we tested in windows earlier, quite a few networks are around

Using Kwifimanager to confirm the connection, seems like my wireless adapter is not detected?