Hello

I know this may sound stupid but i have insalled opensuse on an old hp computer and the on/off wireless card button is dead.

Could somebody help me activate my wireless card from somewhere else than the k-board .

sory first times on linux but all the texts i've read are about script and not about hardware activating since i'm a first timer i can't find what i'm suposed to do

note: the wireless card was running under my old windows 2000 which has now been removed from the computer

So do i need to
Reinstall the pilot or
is there a command i just can't get my hands on?

Thank you

first try this as root in the konsole:
or

and post the result here.

Second specify what kind of wireless card is it (manufacturer, chip).

Third, what opensuse you have installed: 9.0, 9.3, 10, 10.2, 10.3?

Usually, not all wireless cards are recognized on linux boxes.The on/off button don't work if you haven't bind that key.

Sorry for the lack of detail

I am running on opensuse 10.3

and the card is

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11 b/g


eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:79:C2:216
UP BROADCAST 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:11

irda0

Link encap:IrLAP HWadder 00:00:00:00
NOARP MTU:2048 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:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x130

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:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2056 (2.0.kb) TX bytes:2056 (2.0 Kb)

Hope it looks ok cause it's typed out since other computer has no acces to web

Ok, your laptop doesn't recognize your wifi card.

One trip to http://www.opensuse.org and found this:
http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_netw...29_2100.2F2200

Try it and if you have problems come back.

Cheers

I'll try that!

Okay i've installed the Non OSS software to get the intel drivers but i still can't detect my wireless network card.

can somebody help me with this?

Thanks