Connecting to Wireless?? Must be missing something.

PulsarSL · 10-06-2005, 02:00 PM

Bump.

PulsarSL · 10-07-2005, 08:47 PM

I cannot believe this is an uncommon problem.

ilikejam · 10-07-2005, 08:56 PM

Ditch yast, and use 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm'

barrythai · 10-09-2005, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikejam
Ditch yast, and use 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm'

Why will this help?

What is it?

Why should this make the ndiswrapper work on 64bit machines?

Why will this sort the minimal load of wireless drivers with the SuSE 10rc1 that all appear not to work with 64 bit machines?

ilikejam · 10-09-2005, 11:42 AM

barrythai:

1) It's the command used to install RPMs. PulsarSL said he was having problems with YaST installing the RPMs he had.

2) We're not using ndiswrapper. At all. These are native drivers.

3) Who said anything about 64 bit machines?

barrythai · 10-09-2005, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikejam
barrythai:

1) It's the command used to install RPMs. PulsarSL said he was having problems with YaST installing the RPMs he had.

2) We're not using ndiswrapper. At all. These are native drivers.

3) Who said anything about 64 bit machines?

Sorry I did not notice the quote.

Why would a command line be any better than YAST?

I asked about ndiswrapper as I do not believe it works on 64 bit machines.

I asked about 64 bit machines as the 10rc1 appears to have few drivers for wireless cards.

Cluster-Karl · 10-10-2005, 06:05 AM

I'm quite new to Linux and had the similiar problem yesterday.
My network connect is a NETGEAR WG111v2 USB stick, which apparantly has no native
driver in SUSE Linux V10.

I did the following:

1. check if the USB device is found with: lsusb

2. install the ndiswrapper package from your distribution, it's somewhere hidden in the networking stuff

3. insert the windows driver CD and locate the inf file for your device

4. call ndiswrapper to installe the driver: ndiswrapper -i <path to inf file here>

5. connect to kernel: modprobe ndiswrapper

6. if no error appears you're fine

7. configure the WLAN using YAST

regards Kalle

Cluster-Karl · 10-10-2005, 06:14 AM

I'm quite new to Linux and had the similiar problem yesterday.
My network connect is a NETGEAR WG111v2 USB stick, which apparantly has no native
driver in SUSE Linux V10.

I did the following:

1. check if the USB device is found with: lsusb

2. install the ndiswrapper package from your distribution, it's somewhere hidden in the networking stuff

3. insert the windows driver CD and locate the inf file for your device

4. call ndiswrapper to installe the driver: ndiswrapper -i <path to inf file here>

5. connect to kernel: modprobe ndiswrapper

6. if no error appears you're fine

7. configure the WLAN using YAST

regards Kalle

barrythai · 10-10-2005, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluster-Karl
I'm quite new to Linux and had the similiar problem yesterday.
My network connect is a NETGEAR WG111v2 USB stick, which apparantly has no native
driver in SUSE Linux V10.

regards Kalle

Good to see that the wrapper works for 32 bit and the WG111v2.

Do you know the chipset by any chance?

It does demonstrate that no native driver is in Suse for a popular card like Netgear.

Where in Fedora 4 and Mandrake 10 -32 bit versions- the Netgear drivers are supported.