Another Failed Wireless Setup

I have a similar problem to another person in this topic. The only thing is I am really a bit of a novice with networking.

Earlier this year I installed the PCI card and it works fine in Windows XP. I also have a laptop with a PCMCIA networking card and it works fine there too (also XP).

I would like to switch over to Linux on the desktop, and have installed Suse 10.2 which I bought some time ago. It looks all right and it appears that everything else works, but I just can't make the wireless internet work.

I tried disabling the WEP password - made it open for a while to see if Linux would then see it.

I have 5 CD's for the Suse 10.2 but the installation only used 3. I also have a disc with addons which I added on by booting from disc 1 again etc.

Is there a fairly simple way to set up the wireless card?
The computer is a bit old, Sempron 2400, the chipset is Nvidia. The PCI wireless card is Texas Instruments, The router is E-Tech.

Can anyone help out a bit, bearing in mind that I have been mollycoddled by Windows and not used to having to do stuff manually?
TIA
Wendy

open a terminal/console and enter this command

/sbin/lspci -v & press enter

copy & paste the output on the forum,then we can take things from there

Andy

I did this in Linux, saved it to my flash disk, put this in the laptop to send, but I can't open it now as Windows doesn't recognise it. I did try to save it as rtf, but that appears not to have worked. It saved only the odt version.

The message though was:

bash: /sbin/lspci-v: No such file or directory

best wishes and thanks for replying,
wendy

hmm. ok, open a console,su to root & issue this command

lspci -v ( not forgetting there is a space between i & - ) & post the out put here. just an fyi, use kate or kwrite when transferring simple text files. much easier to transfer

Andy

The result is so short I may as well type it here:-

bash: lspci: command not found.


When I tried it without the space it gave the same message:-

bash: lspci-v: command not found.

thanks for helping me, I do appreciate it,
wendy

Try
su -c "lspci -v"

When prompted for password give the root password.

Aha, I've been fiddling about. I discovered YAST and have messed about a bit. Now when I typed in the
/sbin/lspci -v thingy a long list appeared. For some reason i cannot get it to recognise my memory stick now, maybe I have done something to the USB, but anyway, it named the pci network card, but after its description it said, "Access denied."

Now I'm stuck as to how to enable access.
best wishes
wendy

I'm not the wireless expert deltaflyer is I'm presuming he wants to know what chipset so you can be advised on which way to achieve it.

With out the information much is presumption.

I suspect you're using madwifi and it's not working that way, but you need to provide the information then I suspect the help will be more forth coming.

could you post the make & model of the wireless device, then i'll have a go at getting it working for you

Andy

Aha, I've been fiddling about. I discovered YAST and have messed about a bit. Now when I typed in the
/sbin/lspci -v thingy a long list appeared. For some reason i cannot get it to recognise my memory stick now, maybe I have done something to the USB, but anyway, it named the pci network card, but after its description it said, "Access denied."

Now I'm stuck as to how to enable access.
best wishes
wendy
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if you log in as you normally would as a normal user, when everything is loaded and running fine press alt+f2

once that small window is up type konsole
then in the console window type su
then type

lspci -v

that will give you the list. post it here if you can. regarding your memory stick this is a different matter, if it's usb it won't be listed there anyway (that's lsusb -v)

regarding the memory stick, i suggest making a topic in hardware support, that way it will get more attention, either myself or someone else will be able to help you. but lets try and get that wireless sorted shall we

if the card is working on xp then it's nothing to do with the network, purely linux set up.

if we know make and model we can help you more. do you have an installation cd for windows which came with the card you bought?

thanks.