OpenSUSE 11.0 wireless not working

[ghostwind]

@PaleGringo: While we would love to help you out with your issue, we are currently trying to helpout another forum member with his wireless issues. Please open a new thread up so we can help you with your issue.

[PaleGringo]

Can do! I was just under the old skool Forum Netiquette about not posting duplicitous threads, but as it may pertain more accurately to others having this problem in the future, I'll open a new thread.

Thanks for the advice.

[einheit47]

Originally Posted by ghostwind

Basically what that whole spiel says is that the drivers provided with opensuse are not compatable with the version of the kernel provided with opensuse 11. you need to compile your own compat drivers (mentioned int the tutorial link I sent)

No. It says that the kernel versions 2.6.24 and up already include the drivers! 11.0 has kernel 2.6.25, so it includes the drivers, and thus is not compatible with the add-on drivers found on the Intel download site. That is what is not compatible, not the drivers in general. Maybe we can complain or file bug reports about the kernel-integrated drivers being not as good as the separated drivers, or as good as compat-wireless. But it is no good to keep claiming that the iwl3945 and iwl4965 are not compatible with the 11.0 kernel, when they are part of the kernel, and it is only the separated drivers which are incompatible.

[ghostwind]

Originally Posted by einheit47

No. It says that the kernel versions 2.6.24 and up already include the drivers! 11.0 has kernel 2.6.25, so it includes the drivers, and thus is not compatible with the add-on drivers found on the Intel download site. That is what is not compatible, not the drivers in general. Maybe we can complain or file bug reports about the kernel-integrated drivers being not as good as the separated drivers, or as good as compat-wireless. But it is no good to keep claiming that the iwl3945 and iwl4965 are not compatible with the 11.0 kernel, when they are part of the kernel, and it is only the separated drivers which are incompatible.

Okay. Perhaps it was a poor choice of words on my part.

[einheit47]

No problem. In general, I think the advice to use compat-wireless is the best way to go, since Intel pushes their development updates to that project anyway. But there is much potential in the kernel-integrated drivers, since the drivers are the most open for any wireless card, and allow integration into the kernel (which is why I made sure to get one of these when I bought a laptop). When they have problems "out of the box" we should address them and figure out why, and not only jump ahead to development versions, especially when there is a regression compared to earlier versions. For now, to get people connected, yes use compat-wireless, but we should still try to probe why the kernel drivers are not working so well, since they should work.

[ghostwind]

Just out of curriousity, what laptop do you have?

[einheit47]

Dell 1420, shipped with Ubuntu.

[D8TA]

I am using a HP Compaq 6910p with the iwl4965 driver and my wifi doesn't work either. I tried a lot of suggestions I found on this board except get the driver from OpenSuse RC1 DVD, I don't have, so I think I have it working using ndsiwrapper and the Winders driver. Going to verify later on tonight when I am at the house with my access point.

I would be interested to know if anyone has this driver working without ndsiwrapper. Running 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae kernel.