cant find the wlan0 con SUse 9.2
 

OS: SuSe Linux 9.2 x86_64.

System: AMD 3200+, Nvidia Gforce 440 go 64 Mb, Compaq Presario R3000z. BroadCom Wireless card.

Problem: I have read the post "NDISWrapper + Suse 9.2" and many others to make my Wireless card work. after installing the NDISWrapper kernel module from yast, and following the steps given on the post i said i read (which is perfect) i have this !@#$ problem.

1. I get the Windows driver for my wireless card (bcmw15.inf) and i did "ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf) ---> went ok. ( also have bcmw15.sys but dont know i i have to use this)

2. i did "ndiswrapper -l" this is what i got:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 hardware present

3. i put down my eth0 by ifdown eth0 ---> went ok.

4. dhcpcd wlan0 --> return nothing.

5. ifup wlan0 ---> here is my problem :

linux:/windows/D # ifup wlan0
ERROR: Interface wlan0 is not available

OTHER INFORMATION:
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linux:/windows/D # ifconfig (WITH ETH0 OFF)
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:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10192 (9.9 Kb) TX bytes:10192 (9.9 Kb)

linux:/windows/D # ifconfig (WITH ETH0 ON)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:48:CB:AE
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2732759 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:404140 (394.6 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2800


linux:/windows/D # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.
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cant find the wlan0 con SUse 9.2
 

I just fixed this on my system by downloading and making ndiswrapper 1.0 from sourceforge.

My system is SuSE 9.2, IBM Thinkpad A20m and Belkin F5D7010 card (BCM4306 chipset).

I used the bcmwl5a.inf driver from Dell described here => http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...index.php/List

Here is the sequence of commands I used to activate wlan0 (you will need to edit this for your installation):

/bin/bash
cd /tmp/bcmwl5a
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe -r --first-time ndiswrapper
modprobe -i --first-time ndiswrapper
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX open
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 essid "XXX" mode Managed
iwconfig
ifconfig eth0 down
dhcpcd -k
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0

Watch the correct output of iwconfig, and for console messages

Buena suerte! :D

lstrong


after doing everything so said... i thogth it was gonna work. o got far.. but when i hit "iwconfig wlan0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(dont know what is this) open, doesnt work, it returns me this:


Error for wireless request "set Encode" (8B2A): Set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argumen.

i tryied with the HEX number from Access point and occured the same. tryied a lot of things and nothing... just worked "off" so i went like thar, and when i hit dhcpcd wlan0 it returned me this:

ERROR: No configuration found for wlan0

Dios que mas puede ser. :P

The following command is only a sample:

iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX open

It enables WEP encryption with a "key" value shown as XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and "open" authentication, as described in the man page for iwconfig.

You will need to modify this for your environment, and substitute the values configured in your wireless access point.

thank you very much, im now enjoing my wifi :P