Hello,
I am having some issues compiling my WiFi card drivers. I haven’t encountered this issue on any other distros (including Fedora). I would prefer to use openSuSe however so I hope someone here could tell me how to solve this.
I have a fresh install of the x586 DVD, fairly complete.
The issue is picture in the attached image: basically I try to run a make and I get the pictured error. Anyone could tell me why that happens and what am I missing?
On 07/20/2011 10:26 PM, austerus wrote:
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> [image: http://www.dragonflame.org/issue.jpg]
first: are you certain you must compile your driver? openSUSE has a wide
selection of drivers available…suggest you hop to the wireless forum
and work though the three stickies at the top of that forum
second: openSUSE does not default install the development packages
necessary to compile software…just use YaST to install the needed
patterns (many previous posts in these fora on how to fetch what you need)
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
Thanks for the reply,
Unfortunately SuSe doesn’t seem to have anything related to my PCI WiFi card (Edimax EW-7711lN). It didn’t work out of the box and I didn’t see anything about this card on the forums.
I installed the kernel development libraries (the basic development packages were already selected during install, otherwise there wouldn’t be any such thing as make or gcc) which were missing and compilation went smoothly.
What baffles me now is that even after compilation and setup of the module for my card, it is still not recognized. In fact, SuSe doesn’t recognize neither my wired LAN card (a fairly common on board Realtek chip), nor my WiFi and there’s not even a loopback interface. All these things work perfectly on any other distro out there except for openSuSe.
On 07/21/2011 01:16 PM, austerus wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Unfortunately SuSe doesn’t seem to have anything related to my PCI WiFi
> card (Edimax EW-7711lN). It didn’t work out of the box and I didn’t see
> anything about this card on the forums.
>
> I installed the kernel development libraries (the basic development
> packages were already selected during install, otherwise there wouldn’t
> be any such thing as make or gcc) which were missing and compilation
> went smoothly.
>
> What baffles me now is that even after compilation and setup of the
> module for my card, it is still not recognized. In fact, SuSe doesn’t
> recognize neither my wired LAN card (a fairly common on board Realtek
> chip), nor my WiFi and there’s not even a loopback interface. All these
> things work perfectly on any other distro out there except for openSuSe.
>
>
where did you get your install media? download from
http://software.opensuse.org/ or somewhere else? did you md5sum check
the iso before burning the disk, and then do this
http://tinyurl.com/2ebcf27 prior to install?
i ask those because a default install of openSUSE finds and connects
wired nets way over most of the time…i guess more like 90+% of the
time…
one thing that may be in your way is that you may have had great success
with several older kernels (from all of those other distros which were
great for you) but the newer kernel sticks its tongue out at lots of
little things…
anyway, i again suggest you seek info and post to the wireless
forum…there is guy there ARE folks there that knows their stuff…and,
many of them will NOT venture outside the wireless forum looking for
folks who don’t have the time needed to find the correct place to post…
if you read the three stickies they give some hint on (for example) it
makes no difference whatsoever what your card is named, becuase many
manufacturers are known to change chip sets without changing the names
on the box or card…so, the driver that worked on you neighbor’s Edimax
EW-7711lN might not work for yours made six months earlier (or later).
or, you can keep posting here and hope someone who knows drops in, by
accident…
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
