Hi there,
I new to Linux, just installed OpenSuse 11.4 on my laptop and now I’m trying to get my wireless to work.
I read the two stickies posted in this section, so I’ll now try to give all the information that is needed. If anything is missing, let me know and I’ll update it asap.
II. My device is RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter and the kernel driver is listed as: rtl8187
III. Do I need external firmware? With “dmesg | grep firmware”, I found the following, although I’m not sure if that pertains to the wireless or something else:
0.116670] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored: line 238
0.130165] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness: line 248
2.193386] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness: line 285
2.194664] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness: line 286
IV. With the command “sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan”, I get the following:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:E2:AE:E1:60
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=70/70 Signal level=-39 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:“SMC”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000023deca7dbfa
Extra: Last beacon: 24584ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0003534D43
IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
V. Encryption: I entered the right encryption details under Network settings. I double and triple checked this, so I’m sure there isn’t a typo.
VI. The command “/usr/sbin/iwconfig” gives me this:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“SMC”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:AE:E1:60
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-39 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:10 Missed beacon:0
I think everything up to this point works as it should. Trying to access the internet via firefox doesn’t work though.
VII. First using “/sbin/ifconfig” I get this:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:C4:6F:05:14
inet addr:192.168.2.102 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:208313 (203.4 Kb) TX bytes:5621 (5.4 Kb)
The line inet addr and so on is there, so this does not seem to be the problem either. Next I tried to ping the AP and this did not work:
ping -c 5 66.70.73.150 → connect: Network is unreachable
Anyone know what I can do to resolve this? Did I forget to configure something?
Additional information from the other sticky:
“/sbin/lspci ”:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Looking for the hardware with “dmesg”:
1.144626] usb 1-3: Product: RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter
Found another line in there saying this:
48.818656] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Thanks in advance,
~Arch
