Wireless Problems On Laptop

Hi Guys,
I am trying to move to Linux SuSE from Windows for a few months and I am finding a few problems that I will be asking for advice. the first one is with my Laptop. I have an Acer Aspire 1662WLMI and I can not get the wireless on it to work. when I installed SuSE 10.3 on my Desktop it listed the wireless module or card as eth0 but on my laptop it list it as eth1 and it will not activate.
The card is seen by YaST2 and is listed as "Wistron NetWeb TravelMate 290E WLan PCI Card DHCP"
I configure it as I have done My Desktop but it will not work.
I am using MadWifi for it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Best regards
Luis

Hi Guys,
I am trying to move to Linux SuSE from Windows for a few months and I am finding a few problems that I will be asking for advice. the first one is with my Laptop. I have an Acer Aspire 1662WLMI and I can not get the wireless on it to work. when I installed SuSE 10.3 on my Desktop it listed the wireless module or card as eth0 but on my laptop it list it as eth1 and it will not activate.
The card is seen by YaST2 and is listed as "Wistron NetWeb TravelMate 290E WLan PCI Card DHCP"
I configure it as I have done My Desktop but it will not work.
I am using MadWifi for it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Best regards
Luis
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hi there. it is no problem the device name is different. you mention about your desktop... is it the same card? a pci card is named there, is it plug in, or built in laptop and you use different one for desktop? what program are you using to connect? knetworkmanager, kinternet, or another? what encryption is the network using? have you tried disabling ipv6 and using traditional method with ifup (all settings in yast)

hi there. it is no problem the device name is different. you mention about your desktop... is it the same card? a pci card is named there, is it plug in, or built in laptop and you use different one for desktop? what program are you using to connect? knetworkmanager, kinternet, or another? what encryption is the network using? have you tried disabling ipv6 and using traditional method with ifup (all settings in yast)
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Hi Thestig,
The card on my desktop is a different one, the card on the Laptop is a built in one. I am using Knetworkmanager, incryption is wep.
Best regards

Luis

try the following, it is my set up (with a few minor tweaks, i used to have wep, now on wpa)

in yast:
ensure set to dhcp, traditional method with ifup. DISABLE ipV6, activate device at boot. in hardware tab, what is under the module name? check for driver there.

operating mode: managed, network name (pretty obvious) authentication>wep, wep keys>set your wep key as default click ok that means yast should be set correctly. now, i have always had problems with knetworkmanager, so if possible to get the laptop cabled up for internet download wifi-radar. in wifi-radar use this standard set up, set channel and mode to auto, ensure the key you are putting in is correct (i.e. capitals when needed, lower case when needed etc).

if you can't get wifi-radar then use kinternet, in my opinion, this worked for me in wep encryption, yet same set up, knetworkmanager didn't.

if this doesn't work, we can try some other settings.

also, post output of

iwconfig

from a console. first type su and enter root password.

try the following, it is my set up (with a few minor tweaks, i used to have wep, now on wpa)

in yast:
ensure set to dhcp, traditional method with ifup. DISABLE ipV6, activate device at boot. in hardware tab, what is under the module name? check for driver there.

operating mode: managed, network name (pretty obvious) authentication>wep, wep keys>set your wep key as default click ok that means yast should be set correctly. now, i have always had problems with knetworkmanager, so if possible to get the laptop cabled up for internet download wifi-radar. in wifi-radar use this standard set up, set channel and mode to auto, ensure the key you are putting in is correct (i.e. capitals when needed, lower case when needed etc).

if you can't get wifi-radar then use kinternet, in my opinion, this worked for me in wep encryption, yet same set up, knetworkmanager didn't.

if this doesn't work, we can try some other settings.

also, post output of

iwconfig

from a console. first type su and enter root password.
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Hi Thestig,
I will try your suggestion.
this is the screen dump for iwconfig:

"linux-r660:/home/lmoreira # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 "

Best regards
Luis

Hi Thestig,
I will try your suggestion.
this is the screen dump for iwconfig:

"linux-r660:/home/lmoreira # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 "

Best regards
Luis
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ah, you might be using the bcm driver (i can't remember the exact name, something along the lines of bcm43xx) but this is known to not work, however, there is a patch for it. if you can't find it, i will try to find it when i get more time, but that may not be until tomorrow unfortunately. post which driver which you are using, and someone should be able to help you out with it if you can't find it before i do.

take care and speak soon.

Ross.

here, if using bcm43xx driver (check module name under hardware tab) you need to install the second one down

http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ind...ro=openSUSE_103

found that quicker than expected

ah, you might be using the bcm driver (i can't remember the exact name, something along the lines of bcm43xx) but this is known to not work, however, there is a patch for it. if you can't find it, i will try to find it when i get more time, but that may not be until tomorrow unfortunately. post which driver which you are using, and someone should be able to help you out with it if you can't find it before i do.

take care and speak soon.

Ross.

here, if using bcm43xx driver (check module name under hardware tab) you need to install the second one down

http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ind...ro=openSUSE_103

found that quicker than expected
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Hi Thestig,
this will sound very bad but what do I do with with the file I have downloaded?
best regards
Luis

Hi Thestig,
this will sound very bad but what do I do with with the file I have downloaded?
best regards
Luis
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that file, open firefox, left click on it, instead of saving it to /home somewhere, open it. the default value should be open with yast meta packager.

this should open the installer, click next a few times, enter root password and all should install.

if not let me know what happens when you click on the button which says install.

Ross

Hi Thestig,
it worked, in fact I am posting this message from my laptop.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Luis

Hi Thestig,
it worked, in fact I am posting this message from my laptop.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Luis
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wahey! excellent stuff. glad to be of help.