I just installed openSUSE on my computer (alongside XP). I have fairly limited computer know-how and specifically chose openSUSE because of that. I am very frustrated at the lack of the ability to be able to use wireless internet without investing a lot of time and energy. This is the fourth version of linux I’ve tried, and the only reason I believed that openSUSE might possibly be able to deal with it was because I read it was good with laptops. I don’t have a laptop, but my desktop basically is one. I have a Belkin F6D4050 that uses the rt2870 chipset/driver, and I am at my wit’s end because I have absolutely no clue what to do and it won’t work. Sorry if it sounded like I was ranting, but I have no clue, and desparately need help. It would be very helpful if your explanations were clear and told me what to do in an easy to understand manner.
I’m convinced we can get this working with some cooperation from your side. We will need some info on your system:
openSUSE version ? 32/64 bit
Is it simply a desktop with a wireless only connection? To a router? Protection?
Do you want to start the connection at boot or through the Networkmanager (i.e. user managed) ?
The driver is there in 11.2, this should be a matter of configuration.
I am using openSUSE 11.2 32 bit. I have an ethernet card, but the way my internet is set up, my only option is wireless internet, via the Belkin. It is incrypted using whatever AT&T uses. (I think it might be WPA, but don’t hold me to that) I am totally fine opening the connection myself and not having it start at boot-up.
On 06/22/2010 09:36 AM, Oboist wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> I am using openSUSE 11.2 32 bit. I have an ethernet card, but the way
> my internet is set up, my only option is wireless internet, via the
> Belkin. It is incrypted using whatever AT&T uses. (I think it might be
> WPA, but don’t hold me to that) I am totally fine opening the connection
> myself and not having it start at boot-up.
Please run the following commands and post the output:
I did what you said and this is what I got:
(Also, when I put in my sudo password, it didn’t fill in any space, but when I pressed enter, it seemed to work. Is that normal?)
sudo /sbin/iwconfig
command not found
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo interface doesn't support scanning
eth0 interfave doesn't support scanning
dmesg l egrep "rt l firmware"
Usage: dmesg -c] -n level] -s bufsize]
On 06/23/2010 10:06 AM, Oboist wrote:
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> lwfinger,
>
> I did what you said and this is what I got:
> (Also, when I put in my sudo password, it didn’t fill in any space, but
> when I pressed enter, it seemed to work. Is that normal?)
Yes.
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo /sbin/iwconfig
> command not found
My mistake here. The command should be
sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo interface doesn’t support scanning
eth0 interfave doesn’t support scanning
dmesg l egrep “rt l firmware”
Usage: dmesg -c] -n level] -s bufsize]
Any thoughts?
The character after “dmesg” and in between “rt” and “firmware” is the
so-called pipe character, which on my keyboard is above the backslash key.
The first instance passes the output of dmesg on to egrep. The second
instance has it as the “or” operator. BTW, put spaces exactly where I did,
and nowhere else. Once again, the command should be
dmesg | egrep "rt|firmware"
Windows does not have this richness in its command-line facility; however,
these kinds of things are very useful.
Your wifi device did not show up in the scan command, thus there is some
problem in setting it up. I suspect missing firmware.
lwfinger, I did what you said, and this time with the /usr/sbin/iw… it gave me the lo/eth0 interface not supporting scanning. And I redid the dmesg… but there was so much stuff it wouldn’t of been practical to write it all down and type it back up. Is there an easy way to get that stuff onto windows? For, example could I copy and paste it into OpenOffice, save it to a flash drive, and then plug it in on windows?
On 06/24/2010 10:26 AM, Oboist wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> lwfinger, I did what you said, and this time with the /usr/sbin/iw…
> it gave me the lo/eth0 interface not supporting scanning. And I redid
> the dmesg… but there was so much stuff it wouldn’t of been practical
> to write it all down and type it back up. Is there an easy way to get
> that stuff onto windows? For, example could I copy and paste it into
> OpenOffice, save it to a flash drive, and then plug it in on windows?
You can always redirect the dmesg output to a file and copy that file to
Windows.
0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
0.221956] system 00:09: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
0.221960] system 00:09: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been reserved
0.221970] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
0.221975] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
0.221979] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been reserved
0.428080] vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c571f, set palette = c00c576b
0.878077] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
0.881640] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
0.881650] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
1.770892] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
2.110004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
6.948654] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
On 06/25/2010 02:06 PM, Oboist wrote:
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> lwfinger,
>
> Here is the result of the dmesg,etc:
>
> 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> 0.221956] system 00:09: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been
> reserved
> 0.221960] system 00:09: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been
> reserved
> 0.221970] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been
> reserved
> 0.221975] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been
> reserved
> 0.221979] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been
> reserved
> 0.428080] vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c571f, set palette =
> c00c576b
> 0.878077] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> 0.881640] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> 0.881650] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> 1.770892] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
> 2.110004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
> 6.948654] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
>
> Hope that helps.
Not really as nothing is mentioned about wireless.