Welcome

[deltaflyer44]

Welcome to the wireless section. In here you can ask questions related to all your wireless woes ( except for questions about receiving BBC World Service ). Before asking questions, please make sure you have enough details of the problem. Here's an example list:

1 ) make and model of wireless device.
2 ) driver version in use
3 ) any error message.
4 ) what you have tried to rectify the problem.
5 ) any trouble-shooting guide you have tried to follow.
6 ) openSUSE version
7 ) type /sbin/lspci -v" in a terminal; copy and paste the section that identifies your wireless card and it's chipset.
8 ) if it is a usb device type lsusb in a terminal;copy and paste the result
Once we have this sort of information,hopefully we will be able to answer your question. Have fun

Andy

[snakedriver]

Andy,

I recommend adding to your list:
do "lspci -v" in a terminal; copy and paste the section that identifies your wireless card and it's chipset.

Jim

[deltaflyer44]

thanks Jim, amended it

Andy

[swerdna]

Originally Posted by snakedriver

Andy,

I recommend adding to your list:
do "lspci -v" in a terminal; copy and paste the section that identifies your wireless card and it's chipset.

Jim

What if it's a usb NIC? Would you need lsusb instead of lspci?

[deltaflyer44]

eeech, must be getting old, forgot that one, now amended

Andy

[deltaflyer44]

as we get a lot of wireless questions i thought I'd give a list of places to check for drivers & to see if your card is supported & what chipset it may use. i will update it as & when i find new updates

url=http://www.prism54.org/index.html]The Prism54 Project[/url]
Compatibility - madwifi.org - Trac
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE
Ralink chipsets based wireless devices
Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl


some wireless tools
WiFi Radar
KWirelessMonitor

for setting up your card
http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...ConfigWifiCard
Ndiswrapper howto - openSUSE

for the rt2xxx series look here 10.2 Rt2500 No Connection - SuSE Linux Forums
commands to find your chipset :
run these in a console as root

lspci ( press enter ) for unique ID
lspci -n ( press enter ) for PCI ID

what you are looking for is the unique ID number which may look like this

00:0d.0

the PCI ID will look something like this

168c:0015

also, the results of there commands could also be useful
compliments of schmolle1980 for posting this

dmesg | egrep 'ath|wifi|hal'
lspci -nn | grep Ethernet

if you have a broadcom chip-set, & a wired connection, this command, in a console, may help

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

To install the BCM43xx firmware if you do not have a connection in Linux, do the following:

Using any method that you have to access the Internet, download this
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2

Then copy it into your home directory. Once you have it there, you should enter the following:

tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware \ broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o

These three commands will skip the download step and extract the firmware in the same way that the /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware does.

Note: If the output of 'lspci -n | grep 14e4' contains 14e4:4315 or
14e4:432X, this procedure will not work. For those cases, you need
either the Broadcom-wl proprietary driver package from the Packman
repository, or ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. The wl driver is
the preferred option..

For those devices that support 802.11a/b/g, 802.11a operation is not yet supported.
compliments of LarryFinger

contribution by prhunt

Scenario: You need to use WPA security for your wireless connection, and the access point has a hidden SSID.

Problem: Your wlan won't associate with the access point even though your passphrase and all other config details are correct.

Solution: As root, edit the wlan device configuration file and add the following two entries:

WIRELESS_HIDDEN_SSID='yes'
WIRELESS_AP_SCANMODE='2'

This configuration is located in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0
(or a similar file - it should be fairly obvious).


Sources: wpa_supplicant docs.
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template

if you come across a particularly good tool or a good site regarding wireless stuff please pm me & i will add it to the list
any problems/queries please post in the wireless forum

Andy

[mtmigs]

deltaflyer44 wrote:
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
The madwifi.org web site seems to be down. Attempts to access that
address return "Not Found".

> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List
> (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_A...%28Wireless%29)
> http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...ConfigWifiCard
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_Netw...d_Installation)
> http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in......st&p=208353

These other links with ... in them do not work very well.

Ted