hello all,
i’m new to linux and not very computer savy. my problem is this. i have been running win xp on my hp laptop and my kids keep downloading viruses. a friend of mine said i need to try linux and suggested opensuse for my laptop. so, i have successfully installed the os on my computer and can’t figure out how to get my wlan card to turn on. the only way i can get online is to connect a long ethernet cable from my router whish is located inside my maintenance closet. this totally sucks considering i have a 9 mos old baby who tries to get to my cable when i’m on the computer. i have read through the stickys and barely understand what to do. i’ve never used bash or command line in the past so i’m behind the power curve there. can anyone be of assistance? i
First open a terminal and type
su
and hit enter. Enter your password and hit enter. This will give you admin rights in the terminal. Then type
lspci -vv
and hit enter. This will print out a quick hardware listing with other info. Copy and paste it here so we can see what wireless card you are working with.
I forgot to mention, welcome to openSUSE!
Same from me!
I would like to say a few things to you as new poster. Forgive me if some of them are know to you because you looked around a bit on our forums before deciding that joining and asking here might be usefull.
Please do not use a title for you thread like “new to linux os”. This says nothing about your real problem, People here might scan titles of new threads to see if there is some thing they can be of any help. Thus when you have a problem with a Wifi device of name XYZ, then say so in the title. Any XYZ user will then be triggered (as a bear to honey). In other words, a good title is a good advert: you attrackt the right people!
Then (sorry 67GTA, it is said here many times), do not use
su
but
su -
That is a space and a “minus sign” added. For increased security and also for comfort.
Then you see that 67GTA and I use CODE tags to show computer teext. As this feature is rather hidden, here is how to do this: Posting in Code Tags - A Guide
And for Wifi problems, the first few posts at the Wireless forums are so called “stickies”. Please read them and provide the information asked there when you want quick help. Else people here have to ask again and again for that information.
Sorry, old habit:-)
Thanks for the welcome. Sorry about the post. I have tried to do what was asked in the wireless stickies asked. Like I said I’m not computer savy. Yet… Hoping to gain more knowledge working with Linux. Hope this works. took me a few tries to get this right. I appreciate the prompt replies.
b43- phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN Found (core revision 9)
IEEE 802.11bg ESSID: off/any
Mode: Managed Access Point: Not Associated Tx- Power= 0dBm
Retry long limit: 7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Power Management: off
also from the above post
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge[/size]
Make sure you have read and followed steps here: My wireless doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next Ultimately you should be able to connect openSUSE with your ethernet cable and issue in a terminal
su -
and then
/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
This should install the needed firmware files. Hopefully after a reboot, you should be able to configure your wireless connection.
thanks 67gta. i will try it out. how do i go about configuring a wireless connection?
67gta i installed the firmware and rebooted still no wireless. i read something about bluetooth have some compatibility issues with wlans. wonder if this may be my issue? ideas?
Depends on what version of openUSE you installed, and what desktop environment you are using. If it is 11.4 and earlier then Gnome and KDE both should have a network manager icon in the bottom panel to the right side similar to XP. Just click on it and look for your wireless SSID.
Broadcom can be a pain in the rear. Did the script report success? Make sure b43-fwcutter is installed before running the script. If it does then post the output of
lsmod | grep "b43\|ssb\|wl"
as root from a terminal.
Got the wlan on but still no wireless connectivity yet. This is what I got with the output you asked me to put in
b43 186863 0
mac80211 266082 1 b43
cfg80211 155017 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 53715 1 b43
pcmcia 54463 2 b43,ssb
mmc_core 84491 3 b43,ssb,sdhci
Well, the modules are loading. Does the network manager show your wireless SSID?
yes and i entered the wep key password then a window called kde wallet service pops up and asks for a password. i entered what i thought was my password then it said password may be incorrect. what now? i am getting closer so not gonna give up now.
On 11/13/2011 07:06 PM, williamtackett wrote:
>
> yes and i entered the wep key password then a window called kde wallet
> service pops up and asks for a password. i entered what i thought was my
> password then it said password may be incorrect. what now? i am getting
> closer so not gonna give up now.
For WEP, you must enter the hex key. A passphrase will NOT work.
For opening the wallet, your login password will be needed.
the WEP was entered correctly. the KDE wallet should’ve been correct as well. how would i go about extracting the password or can i reset the password somehow?
Log out from KDE. Either login to “icewm” or use CTRL-ALT-F1 and login to a virtual terminal.
cd .kde4/share/apps
rm -rf kwallet
cd
cd .kde/share/config
rm kwalletmanagerrc
rm kwalletrc
Then logout, and log back into KDE. That should reset the kwallet system to unconfigured. You will lose anything saved there.
WARNING: I did not actually test the above.
It’s probably the WEP key. It can be tricky in Linux. My friend about pulled his hair out over this. There are two types: hex and ascii. Try this converter Hex/Ascii Converter Enter your passphrase in the ascii box and click the ascii to hex button. Try the hex version without the colons and see if it works. If this works, then I have a script I wrote you can have to convert this in the future.
Thanks 67GTA. I finally was able to get on the computer. I was able to reset the kdewallet but i disabled the wireless in the bottom right of the screen, now I can’t get my wlan back on.Tthe light on my keyboard is off as well. I know i didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to keep me from enabling it. What do I need to do now? This is getting to be ridiculous.
If there’s an Fn key combo (such as FnF2), try that. You might have accidently hit it. Also check for a physical switch, usually on the side of the computer.