Wireless LAN's with SuSE
 

Hey,

I am running SuSE 9.0 Professional on a laptop, so I have an integrated entheret controller and I also have a wireless PCMCIA card. It has configured the card and it shows the pcmcia in the YAST as wlan-pcmcia and the integrated ethernet controller is on eth0... i am trying to figure out how to get my pcmcia card on to my wireless router.... if anybody has a tutorial or anything i would greatly appreciate it. I have logged into the SuSE support site and I have read a long artice on Wireless LAN's with SuSE Linux, but I am just really lost. I just want to get my wireless card working. What do I need to do to get this to work???

Thanks in advance!

Sean

First, to post what wireless card your using. That would really help things along for everyone.

Second... if its setup in suse, and its just not working.. perhaps, its just not working! It has to be supported by linux first, getting the system to say "Hey I found a card" is one thing. But if all the connection lights arent lit its not actually using the card.

Hey,

Sorry about forgetting to tell you the card. I have a DLink DWL-G650... I configured it in YAST and the lights on the card are working. the link lights is currently SOLID and the Activity light is not on, but there is no activity on it right now. Hope this helps... if you need anything else let me know and I will try to explain my situation better...

DLink DWL-G650...

Ouch. I'd be really suprised if that's actually working. Tried 3 different dlink cards and none of them actually functioned in suse no matter what I did...

Try opening up a console and typing things like.. iwconfig... ifconfig.. see if it spits out any messages about your wireless settings.

Hey,

I think you are right. From what I have been reading it looks like orinoco cards work well with SuSE. I am using a 802.11G... so what do you think a good card for the G band would be with SuSE 9? And once I get a supported card is SuSE going to automatically configure the wireless?

Hehe.. lol. The hard part is getting the supported card.. I tried a lot of cards.. all of them turned out to be "New Revision" or "Updated" or some little caption on the box that means the chipset sucks and linux doesnt like it... if ya do find one.. in stores or otherwise that you can actually buy before the chipset changes.. yeah :)

Then it is in fact working. I have a couple cards for SuSE, and if the lights are on the card is functioning.

It is a matter of associating it with your Wireless access point, and the correct default gateway.

Is it recognized as eth1, or wlan0 ?

The wireless card is recognized as wlan-pcmcia.... my laptop has an internal wired ethernet and it is recognized as eth0... hopefully you can point me in the right direction on how to get this card to work properly...

Thanks

Tell me how please?
 

Hey I have the same card but I can't get Suse 9.0 to use it.
YAST sees it but when it's being configured at boot something fails (dunno what) which means no lights and no chance of using the card. Any ideas?

J

I don't know about the card in question.. but i would say to try upgrade to SuSE 9.1 Pro... The install recognized my card instantly and configured it approriately... I installed 9.1 on my notebook via the card in fact...

I don't think that 9.0 recognized it.. so you might have some better luck with 9.1...

Suse 10.1 Wireless Not Working
 

I just went from Suse 10.0 to Suse 10.1 on my Cisnet 80 laptop running the Turion64 chip and fitted with a D-Link DWL G650 wireless card. Everything worked flawlessly under Suse 10.0. But support for the Atheros chipset under 10.1 has been removed due to legal issues. So far, none of the workarounds found on the web have worked for me.

I tried using the ndiswrapper supplied with 10.1 but with no success. I got the most recent release of madwifi-ng. Make went ok with no issues. Make install went ok with no issues. However, when I type modprobe ath_pci nothing happens. lsmod gives me:

ath_pci 109996 0
ath_rate_sample 28800 1 ath_pci
wlan 205152 2 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ath_hal 234480 2 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample

iwconfig gives me:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I found an article which suggested adding ath_pci to /etc/sysconfig/ - system - kernel - MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT variable. Still I get nothing.

I'm hoping somebody here has the solution for this problem.