hi there,
i just bought a new sony vaio (VGN-FW31E) and installed suse 11.
everthing works fine save the fact that i cant get wlan to work.
internet connection works if i plug in a cable.
i allready installed a sk98lin driver and everything still works, but no wlan.
also in dmesg,lspci,… there’s not a single word about wlan…
any chance i can get this to work - i have absolutely no clue, where to go on from here, and how i could start the wlan…
any help really appreciated
wkr turnguard.com
As always with wireless problems, read the “Sticky” threads here:
and provide more information.
hi again, been to sticky…
and i cant really find anything promising about a Wireless LAN in my hardware although i’m quite certain, that a new sony vaio has some… somewhere…
my boot.msg (boot.log) don’t say anything about firmware.
the only thing wlan-y i can spot in my hw info file is
>> fb.1: read info
>> net.1: get network data
net interface: name = eth0, path = /class/net/eth0
type = 1
carrier = 1
hw_addr = 00:1d:ba:ad:b6:41
net device: path = /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:08:00.0
net driver: name = sky2, path = /bus/pci/drivers/sky2
net interface: name = lo, path = /class/net/lo
type = 772
carrier = 1
hw_addr = 00:00:00:00:00:00
GDRVINFO ethtool error: Operation not supported
>> pppoe.1: looking for pppoe
>> pppoe.2: discovery
Attempt number 1
eth0: Sending PADI packet
Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Attempt number 2
eth0: Sending PADI packet
Timeout waiting for PADO packets
>> wlan.1: detecting wlan features
>> wlan.2: assign udi
>> isdn.1: list
>> dsl.1: list
>> int.2: cdrom
>> int.3: media
>> int.4.1: /dev/sda
read_block0: 512 bytes (5s, 0us)
mbr sig: 0x206a47ca
>> int.4: floppy
>> int.5: edd
wkr turnguard.com
by the way : when i try to create a new wireless
connection with knetworkmanager - the output in the console is :
WirelessSecurity::getEnabled false (null)
Yes, you have a wireless device (and without more information, that’s about all I can say).
No, “eth0” is not your wireless device and sk98lin is not the driver for your wireless (you don’t need it at all).
Getting Your Wireless to Work - openSUSE Forums
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P.S.
What’s that DSL-connection for? Don’t you have a wireless router?
hi again, thanks for your help.
i determined that the iwlwifi driver could not be loaded.
see /lib/firmware/README.iwlwifi… ]
i downloaded a new version from the opensuse site search for iwlwifi and install the iwlwifi…-5000 driver ]
everything works fine…
wkr
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