I’m completely new to openSUSE and Linux in general, so please forgive me if I’m asking obvious questions.
I really tried to follow the instructions in the sticky but got stumped on the first instruction: /usr/bin/lsusb. I just get ‘No such file or directory’.
I finally got openSUSE installed today after several days of fighting with my nvidia video card. Now I’m trying to set up a Linksys WUSB11 ver. 2.6 802.11b Adapter.
From the menu, I select Administrator Settings -> Network Devices -> Network Settings and then click the Overview tab. When my adapter is highlighted, the bottom panel message says:
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 demsg output for details.
As I’ve said, I’m totally new to all this stuff, so please stick with me as I want to learn!
Thanks for the reply. I have seen those pages before but they didn’t really make sense to me.
Ensure you have kernel sources matching the kernel you want to compile for (incl. the correct configuration).
Get either the latest released driver source, 0.17, or the latest cvs tarball. A kernel 2.6.x support is in 0.16 already. Kernel 2.4 support is dropped in 0.13, please use 0.12 for it
Compile and install (as root):
make
make install
Plug the device in and watch the syslog; if you see lines like:
at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:08:a1:42:9c:d9, regulatory domain ETSI (Europe - (Spain+France) (id 48)
at76c503.c: registered wlan0
the driver started successfully.
Set the wireless parameters and open the netdevice:
iwconfig wlan0 essid your_ssid mode your_mode
ifconfig wlan0 your_ipaddr
Try to ping etc. your peer.
As I mentioned, I’m new to Linux and the CLI, so these instructions are a bit difficult to get my head around.
OK, I downloaded ‘kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586.rpm’ and installed that. Then I downloaded the driver source from the Berlios site and untarred it. Then I cd into the directory and run make and get ‘make: Command not found’, so I assume I need another package for that?
Hi SafetyCode; I hope my chipping does not confuse matters for you: you are doing well at getting going; it is a shame you don’t have a wired internet connection to get you started; and then move on to wireless after that:
we were using Suse 10.2 and then installed Suse 11.0 (with gnome as interface) from the CD onto another computer, and we had to pull down a variety of extra packages; so you will find yourself missing packages that the DVD has built in;
if you try to download and install the following packages:
a. make
b. gcc, gcc++, gcc42, gcc42++
c. linux-kernel-headers
once you have those installed; you can then run the “make” command
have you been briefed on using the “substitute user” or root powers to implement some commands: linux security allows some tasks in the command line to be done by the user: but extra powers are needed to implement some changes; those are done using the “root” or su or substitute user powers;
Thanks for the replies… I might not even need to compile the source for the driver. If you have a look at What packagedo I need for ‘make’? - openSUSE Forums you’ll see someone pointed me in the direction of an .rpm… I have this installed and seem to be making some progress! I’m so close :’(
