New User Having Trouble Following Sticky Instructions :-(

[safetycopy]

Hi,

I'm completely new to openSUSE and Linux in general, so please forgive me if I'm asking obvious questions.

I really tried to follow the instructions in the sticky but got stumped on the first instruction: /usr/bin/lsusb. I just get 'No such file or directory'.

I finally got openSUSE installed today after several days of fighting with my nvidia video card. Now I'm trying to set up a Linksys WUSB11 ver. 2.6 802.11b Adapter.

From the menu, I select Administrator Settings -> Network Devices -> Network Settings and then click the Overview tab. When my adapter is highlighted, the bottom panel message says:

Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See demsg output for details.

As I've said, I'm totally new to all this stuff, so please stick with me as I want to learn!

[caf4926]

Linksys is listed here

HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE


Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl

Linksys 802.11b WUSB11 ver. 2.6
Atmel at76c503a green at76_usb - Linux driver for Atmel AT76C503/AT76C505 based USB WLAN adapters

[safetycopy]

Thanks for the reply. I have seen those pages before but they didn't really make sense to me.

Ensure you have kernel sources matching the kernel you want to compile for (incl. the correct configuration).

Get either the latest released driver source, 0.17, or the latest cvs tarball. A kernel 2.6.x support is in 0.16 already. Kernel 2.4 support is dropped in 0.13, please use 0.12 for it

Compile and install (as root):
      make
      make install

Plug the device in and watch the syslog; if you see lines like:
      at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:08:a1:42:9c:d9, regulatory domain ETSI (Europe - (Spain+France) (id 48)
      at76c503.c: registered wlan0

the driver started successfully.

Set the wireless parameters and open the netdevice:
      iwconfig wlan0 essid your_ssid mode your_mode
      ifconfig wlan0 your_ipaddr
      

Try to ping etc. your peer.

As I mentioned, I'm new to Linux and the CLI, so these instructions are a bit difficult to get my head around.

Also, how do I know if I have the kernel sources?

[caf4926]

give us the output of :

uname -a

[safetycopy]

Linux deadbox 2.6.25.5-1.1-default #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[lwfinger]

safetycopy wrote:
> Code:
> --------------------
> Linux deadbox 2.6.25.5-1.1-default #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> --------------------

You should upgrade your kernel. The latest distributed kernel is
2.6.25.18-0.2-default.

For the lsusb command to work, you need to install the usbutils package.

Larry

[caf4926]

Do as Larry suggests if you can hardwire yourself to the Internet.

If not then post the result of this:

rpm -qi kernel-source


If it says: not installed

then go to yast disable all the repo's except the dvd
open software management
search for : kernel-source and install

[safetycopy]

I'm getting 'package not installed', so I'll try installing and get back to you...

[safetycopy]

:-(

OK, I have 3 repos listed in YaST:
Index of /update/11.0
Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss

Obviously these are all online and I can't access them. I tried adding the CD but it says 'no valid metadata'.

I installed openSUSE from the Live KDE CD, so I'm guessing this doesn't have the extra packages on it...

Is there any way I can download what I need from a Windows box, burn to CD and install from that?

[safetycopy]

OK, I downloaded 'kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586.rpm' and installed that. Then I downloaded the driver source from the Berlios site and untarred it. Then I cd into the directory and run make and get 'make: Command not found', so I assume I need another package for that?