I now understand that cheaper isn’t always better.
I bought this machine for my wife to run her web design business on and I installed 11.4 no problem. However (there is always a “However”) I can’t get wireless to come up. I can get an indication that the card is active by mechanically pressing the wireless key on the keyboard and the indicator turns from amber to white.
When I do that the hardware search under YAST finds and recognizes the card but I still don’t get any indication of it’s availability under networking.
I’m assuming I need a driver and the hardware search reports the card as a Ralink 802.11b/g/n. HP’s documentation says that there are two models of this card that could be installed: 1) the RA3090BC4 or 2) the RT5390.
Anyone have any idea where I would find those drivers and - more importnatly - how I install them?
On 08/21/2011 10:36 AM, jim7634 wrote:
>
> I now understand that cheaper isn’t always better.
> I bought this machine for my wife to run her web design business on
> and I installed 11.4 no problem. However (there is always a “However”) I
> can’t get wireless to come up. I can get an indication that the card is
> active by mechanically pressing the wireless key on the keyboard and the
> indicator turns from amber to white.
> When I do that the hardware search under YAST finds and recognizes the
> card but I still don’t get any indication of it’s availability under
> networking.
> I’m assuming I need a driver and the hardware search reports the card
> as a Ralink 802.11b/g/n. HP’s documentation says that there are two
> models of this card that could be installed: 1) the RA3090BC4 or 2) the
> RT5390.
>
> Anyone have any idea where I would find those drivers and - more
> importnatly - how I install them?
The current driver for that device is rt2800pci. Unfortunately, openSUSE’s
standard configuration does not enable that driver. A fix has been pushed
upstream, but not yet available.
You should install the compat-wireless package. The driver you need will then be
available.