Hi,

linux newbie here.

Installed suse 9.2 pro couple days ago on my vaio s150, but my wireless

still not working.

I heard it should work right out of the box. I could access my router AP, but

Could not connect to internet. Wired works but wireless not working. Any

help would be appreciated.

anyone???

I think this probably needs to be an FAQ. This sounds like the same problem I had initially, which was that I was getting connected to the AP and getting an address via DHCP, but not getting a default route for the wireless interface (eth1). Here's the catch: when dhcpcd starts up for multiple interfaces, it only accepts a default route on the <b>first</b> interface. Once I changed the wired (eth0) interface to come up manually instead of "onboot", the wireless worked fine.

How do I change that? I really newbie at linux

Bring up YaST, go to "Network Devices", "Network Card". Select your wired card. Under the "advanced" settings, there's a dropdown menu for "Device Activation". It's probably set to "At Boot Time". Change it to "manually".

I tried that but no luck.

when starting, there was an error saying...

ERROR: command 'iwconfig' eth1 mode 'manged' returned
error for wireless request "set mode" (8B06):
set failed on device eth1; operation not supported.

eth1 (DHCP) ..... ip net mask: 192.168.103 / 255.255.255.0

I got this message with all 3 modes...what's wrong with this?

That's odd. But it looks like you're getting an address from DHCP, even with the error. Can you paste in the output from "ifconfig eth1", "iwconfig eth1", and "netstat -nr"?

when i typed first 2 on x-terminal...it says bash: ifconfig: command not found, and iwconfig: command not found. maybe I didn't installed some packages??

but netstat -nr

kernel ip routhing table

destination gateway genmask flags msswindow irtt iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u 0 0 0 eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 u 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 ug 0 0 0 eth1

They're in /sbin and /usr/sbin, you probably don't have those in your path. That looks like a good routing table, though. What happens when you try to ping something like, say, www.novell.com?

i get unknown host www.novell.com

OK, how about if you try to ping them by IP (130.57.4.27)? Sounds like you may not be gettng a name server, which could be a configuration issue with your AP.

it works...

ping 130.57.4.27 (130.57.4.27) 56(84) byes of data.

64bytes from 130.57.4.27: icmp_sq1 ttl =52 time70.3 ms
64bytes from 130.57.4.27: icmp_sq2 ttl =52 time69.0 ms
64bytes from 130.57.4.27: icmp_sq3 ttl =52 time73.6 ms

--- 130.57.4.27 ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 69.097/71.034/73.646/1.929 ms

if this works then...what's that mean?

It means that you'r e not getting a DNS server address from your DHCP host. I don't know how your network is set up, but typically either
a) you have an all-in-one router/AP/firewall dingus, or
b) you have a router/firewall box and a separate WAP.

In either case, you typically have to tell whichever box is providing DNS for you to hand out a DNS server address. Usually the address is the router or WAP itself, and it just proxies DNS queries out to another system. But your Linux system seems to be doing everything it should be.

im lost....

how do get the dns server address from my dhcp host?

I really do not get this.....on xp i have no trouble surfing wireless...

Sorry, I'm pretty much out of suggestions at hit point. Without knowing what your DHCP host is, I couldn't even venture a guess. The only useful suggestion I could give you at this point is to look at the documentation for your DHCP device and see if it says anything useful. Oh, one other thing you could do as a workaround for the moment: put the address of your DHCP device (which is almost certainly proxying DNS) directly into /etc/resolv.conf (man resolv.conf will tell you the format of the file). Good luck!