followed sticky post on wireless not working till i got confused...

emandjam · May 24, 2011, 4:13pm

hi, i read the sticky post on here about how to try and get my wireless card working.

i have installed opensuse 11.4
i followed step 1 of post and got following: /usr/bin/lsusb
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 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b070 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd

step 2 gave me following:/sbin/lspci read down to the bit as needed.
0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

and then unfortunately i got lost , i am new to this. so simple instructions would help greatly.
many thanks

caf4926 · May 24, 2011, 4:37pm

Shouldn’t be a problem
HCL:Network (Wireless) - openSUSE

emandjam · May 24, 2011, 4:40pm

shouldnt???
i have no wireless internet at all?

is there anything i can do to see if there is a prob or how to manually set up a wireless connection? the only option i have got showing is wired?

martin_helm · May 24, 2011, 5:06pm

emandjam wrote:

> RTL8191SE
This is my own wireless adapter. If you are on openSUSE 11.4 do the
following
Add the repository
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.4
with yast.
Then you now start yast -> software management again it should automatically
select some packages rtl8192se* for installation.
Don’t be mislead by the 8192 in the name, I have 8191se like you and it
works well. The rpm’s on my machine are
rtl8192se-firmware
rtl8192se-kmp-desktop
(if you have not the desktop kernel but default or something else the second
one will differ).

lwfinger · May 24, 2011, 5:10pm

On 05/24/2011 09:36 AM, emandjam wrote:
>
> hi, i read the sticky post on here about how to try and get my wireless
> card working.
>
> i have installed opensuse 11.4
> i followed step 1 of post and got following: /usr/bin/lsusb
> 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 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b070 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
>
>
> step 2 gave me following:/sbin/lspci read down to the bit as needed.
> 0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
> 14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
>
> and then unfortunately i got lost , i am new to this. so simple
> instructions would help greatly.
> many thanks

Step 1 did not show anything as your wireless device is not USB.

Step 2 shows that it is an RTL8191SE. That device will not be supported with an
in-kernel driver until 2.6.40; however, there is a driver available for you.

With YaST, add the repository at
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.4/
and then add the rtl8192se, rtl8192se-firmware, and rtl8192se-kmp-XXXXX
packages, where XXXXX is default or desktop as shown by the “uname -r” command.

emandjam · May 24, 2011, 6:19pm

hi sorry how do i download the repository with yast?

caf4926 · May 24, 2011, 7:24pm

Do you have a wired connection?

If yes.
Open a terminal and become su -

enter the following by using your mouse to copy and paste the code

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.4/ wireless

zypper ref

(a) to accept if asked

Close the terminal
Open Yast > Software Management
It should all happen as Martin said

martin_helm · May 24, 2011, 7:30pm

emandjam wrote:

>
> hi sorry how do i download the repository with yast?
>
yast -> software repositories -> add -> community repository -> check
driver:wireless -> ok

martin_helm · May 24, 2011, 7:34pm

martin_helm wrote:

> emandjam wrote:
>
>>
>> hi sorry how do i download the repository with yast?
>>
> yast -> software repositories -> add -> community repository -> check
> driver:wireless -> ok
>
Or look at this
http://andi.opensuse-id.org/2008/05/15/add-package-repositories-to-yast/

emandjam · May 24, 2011, 7:49pm

thankyou all, it works