Hi, I’m just installed opensuse 11 on my laptop and it doesn’t detect my wireless card (it works fine out of the box in fedora). When I go to Yast network settings I get this message:
PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (Not connected)
BusID : 0000:05:04.0
Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details.
I’ve ran some of the commands suggested in the stickies from this forum:
/sbin/lspci
05:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network
Connection (rev 05)
/sbin/lspci -n
05:04.0 0280: 8086:4223 (rev 05)
dmesg
Disabling IRQ #11
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00080da0d139e1c8]
rtc_cmos 00:07: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
AND a few lines later
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:595: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x003ba000
ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:04.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:05:04.0 failed with error -5
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Unfortunately I don’t have access to a wired network so installing anything from yast might be difficult for me. I’m fairly new to Linux so some of the output from these commands are meaningless to me… Any help is appreciated!