Feeling Unconnected

hey guys,

being honest here, first time on a forum and i really need some help.

ok, so a few months ago i got a hand me down laptop from my sister (who should not be trusted with anything) and it came with vista. i didnt like the thought of using this os so i decided togo for a different option and after some consideration i first downloaded fedora, which went ok... i had cable internet, but knew i should also be able to get wireless. i went and found a fedora expert friend who managed to fulfill my wireless dreams. however this magic would only work around him and otherwise i was without internet (also cable at this point).

i had a very bright idea at this point. i should get the latest openSuse os and set that up on the laptop. i have a bit more experiance with that as we use it on the school computers and well i do alright there.

so i did that, but now i have a beautiful working os system on my lovely laptop(trust me that is a big deal for me) but now again no internet (which i desperately need).

when i say this i mean no cable and no wireless

is there maybe something wrong with me? i wouldnt know if i did anything wrong due to my cluless newbie status, but i want so desperately to become a linux wizz. can anyone tell me where i might have gone wrong? it seemed so simple when i was going throught the startup. is there maybe a driver i need or something. if it helps i have an acer aspire.

please help.

hey guys,

being honest here, first time on a forum and i really need some help.

ok, so a few months ago i got a hand me down laptop from my sister (who should not be trusted with anything) and it came with vista. i didnt like the thought of using this os so i decided togo for a different option and after some consideration i first downloaded fedora, which went ok... i had cable internet, but knew i should also be able to get wireless. i went and found a fedora expert friend who managed to fulfill my wireless dreams. however this magic would only work around him and otherwise i was without internet (also cable at this point).

i had a very bright idea at this point. i should get the latest openSuse os and set that up on the laptop. i have a bit more experiance with that as we use it on the school computers and well i do alright there.

so i did that, but now i have a beautiful working os system on my lovely laptop(trust me that is a big deal for me) but now again no internet (which i desperately need).

when i say this i mean no cable and no wireless

is there maybe something wrong with me? i wouldnt know if i did anything wrong due to my cluless newbie status, but i want so desperately to become a linux wizz. can anyone tell me where i might have gone wrong? it seemed so simple when i was going throught the startup. is there maybe a driver i need or something. if it helps i have an acer aspire.

please help.
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1st, do you have them turned on in the BIOS?

In a terminal, get to "root":
su
password

now enter:
lspci -v

copy & paste here the sections that ID your wireless & lan nic's.

Once we know you cards, someone will surely help or you can search the forum as that has probably been answered before.

here's mine:

lspci -v
00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. Unknown device 1026
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
Memory at fe029000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=8
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. Unknown device 1026
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4346
Memory at fe027000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
Memory at fe026000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at fe025000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=8
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable+
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
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Yep, I have two MCP55 lan's.

Have fun

hey guys,

being honest here, first time on a forum and i really need some help.

ok, so a few months ago i got a hand me down laptop from my sister (who should not be trusted with anything) and it came with vista. i didnt like the thought of using this os so i decided togo for a different option and after some consideration i first downloaded fedora, which went ok... i had cable internet, but knew i should also be able to get wireless. i went and found a fedora expert friend who managed to fulfill my wireless dreams. however this magic would only work around him and otherwise i was without internet (also cable at this point).

i had a very bright idea at this point. i should get the latest openSuse os and set that up on the laptop. i have a bit more experiance with that as we use it on the school computers and well i do alright there.

so i did that, but now i have a beautiful working os system on my lovely laptop(trust me that is a big deal for me) but now again no internet (which i desperately need).

when i say this i mean no cable and no wireless

is there maybe something wrong with me? i wouldnt know if i did anything wrong due to my cluless newbie status, but i want so desperately to become a linux wizz. can anyone tell me where i might have gone wrong? it seemed so simple when i was going throught the startup. is there maybe a driver i need or something. if it helps i have an acer aspire.

please help.
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Things you might want to check is your firewall settings
goto yast--->network devices ---->networkcard ----pick a card and click configure
there click the general tab if your firewall is set to no zone assigned your firewall will block so you have to assign it one
from the dropdown list click next then finish
by the way youre using suse 10.3.5 right?

hey first in response to snakedriver.... the terminal said:

Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-BO 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0090
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at d0010000 (32-bit, non-perfetchable) [size =8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2


Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-perfetchable) [size =64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

in response to crumudgeon i have to say i believe the version is 10.3 . is there a way to be sure? and when i went on the yast configure thing there were 2 card names on the list, the top one wasnt on the firewall name you mentioned and the second one i couldnt configure because it said 'unable to configure network card because kernel device is not present'

does anyone know whats wrong?
gratefull for ANY help.

hey first in response to snakedriver.... the terminal said:

Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-BO 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0090
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at d0010000 (32-bit, non-perfetchable) [size =8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-perfetchable) [size =64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

in response to crumudgeon i have to say i believe the version is 10.3 . is there a way to be sure? and when i went on the yast configure thing there were 2 card names on the list, the top one wasnt on the firewall name you mentioned and the second one i couldnt configure because it said 'unable to configure network card because kernel device is not present'

does anyone know whats wrong?
gratefull for ANY help.
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Your wireless card has an Atheros chip....Try this walkthrough to install the madwifi driver for that chip http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi

Hope this helps
Dwight

thanks dwight i think that helped alot....

i mean internet is working as far as i can see... how do i configure other internet applications like pppoe? i have tried so that i can access internet, but it doesnt seem to work. it keeps telling me i am missing something, but when i go into the files i see the said messing documents.

what have i done wrong?

naomi

thanks dwight i think that helped alot....

i mean internet is working as far as i can see... how do i configure other internet applications like pppoe? i have tried so that i can access internet, but it doesnt seem to work. it keeps telling me i am missing something, but when i go into the files i see the said messing documents.

what have i done wrong?

naomi
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What documents does it say that you are missing? I'm not sure on the pppoe i just use DHCP and it automatically setup everything up. Maybe someone else can chime in onthe pppoe. Log in as root in a konsole, run"iwconfig" without the quotes and post the output.

Dwight