Accessing WiFi in university, SuSE 11.0 Kde 3.5

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 04:48 AM

In my university we have a Wifi. All the people are connecting to it through windows. I am a regular linux user. I don't want to go windows.
How can i connect to it ?

The details of my university wifi can be seen in attached image.

repo · 12-02-2009, 04:53 AM

Does the wireless works, like at home ?
Is the wireless card recognized and working?
Do you use kwifimanager?

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 04:58 AM

I am using Knetwork manager. It has a option to create eth0,wlan0.
In windows automatic recognition of wifi option is available. But this is not with my openSUSE. I don't know to see available wifi connections. So i had made snapshot of KLUniversity wifi properties. May be that can be helpful to create wifi connection.

repo · 12-02-2009, 05:00 AM

Does it work on another location?
What is the output from

Code:

ifconfig
iwconfig

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 05:00 AM

Knetwork manager allows me to enable/disable radio options. But it is not showing any wifi connections even after enabling. Normally I expect automatic recognition of wifi connection after I enable Wifi.

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 05:04 AM

Presently I am at my home, and i was using wired connection to connect to internet. If i know how to scan all the available wifi connections, then tomorrow i'll try them at my university.

repo · 12-02-2009, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raju.mopidevi

Presently I am at my home, and i was using wired connection to connect to internet. If i know how to scan all the available wifi connections, then tomorrow i'll try them at my university.

You first need to know if the wireless card is recognized and if the driver is loaded.
Therefore you need to issue
iwconfig and ifconfig

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 05:17 AM

these are my present output for the two commands

IFCONFIG:

Code:

linux-snzv:/home/raju # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C2:9C:9F
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fec2:9c9f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9991 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4537138 (4.3 Mb)  TX bytes:3519758 (3.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:17

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:1231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:72509 (70.8 Kb)  TX bytes:72509 (70.8 Kb)

IWCONFIG:

Code:

linux-snzv:/home/raju # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

repo · 12-02-2009, 05:22 AM

You should enable wlan0 in knetworkmanager.
Then, if the card works correct, it should see the accesspoints.

raju.mopidevi · 12-02-2009, 05:27 AM

Wifi is already enabled. Since I am at my home, it is showing no wireless extensions.

I will try those commands in my university. I'll post those outputs tomorrow.

raju.mopidevi · 12-04-2009, 07:47 AM

hi, thanks to all,
I had created the wireless connection, just by giving the SSID name only. Now i was able to connect to the Wifi in my university.