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Old 10-16-2005, 04:28 PM   #1
djcowan
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Question help. wireless network card


hey so i'm just new to the whole linux operating system, but i'm so fed up with windows, so im changing lol

Anyway to the question, I'm having trouble getting my wireless network card recognised, its a "Broadcom 802.11b, and its connected via PCI,

anything i need to do to get it working? I can get acess to a wired connection if i need to, however i'd like to not have to dig up a wire from somewhere...

cheers


David

oh yea im using SuSe 9.3... small thing i forgot to say lol


 
Old 10-17-2005, 11:25 AM   #2
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You'll probably have to look into ndiswrapper.
 
Old 10-17-2005, 12:17 PM   #3
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For now, ignore the ndiswrapper comment. That's a little later.

In SUSE 9.3, go into YAST--> Hardware --> Network. Do both of your network cards get detected? Click on the wireless one and configure that. Take it from there and report back.

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Old 10-17-2005, 06:37 PM   #4
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nup not detected only my ethernet gets detected
 
Old 10-17-2005, 07:11 PM   #5
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You shoul dbe able to add a network device then, so try and find your wireless from that. You should be able to add it, and then configure it a little, for DNS and DHCP/static IP, even the name of the network to connect to and your WEP code(by default SuSE uses 128, you may have to flip that down to 64 to match your router.

Anywho...
Assuming the add goes well, you should be able to run kwifimanager to check on the status of it and change any options you need to.

Let us know how the adding of the device goes.
 
  


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