I am trying to connect to wireless broadband using SuSE 11.2 and a Huawei E160E USB modem, through Internode Australia.
Networkmanager does not seem to recognise the modem so I am trying other means. I believe I have got wvdial to connect (it reports a correct IP address, the light on the stick goes solid blue and I can ping external IP addresses). However it can’t find a DNS nameserver and I can’t work out how to provide one to wvdial, and therefore can’t do anything through the connection (I would rather not revert to ifup because this laptop travels between WLANs).
I followed swerdna’s comprehensive instructions on setting up a wireless broadband modem in YAST, but I got lost on the very last instruction: KMenu → KInternet. I can’t find this on my application launcher.
(FYI I also have a thread in whirlpool.net.au going on this - same username.)
If it’s getting an ip address and pinging external addresses it must be working. If it’s not resolving dns, you could always put the dns server in /etc/resolv.conf.
I followed swerdna’s comprehensive instructions on setting up a wireless broadband modem in YAST, but I got lost on the very last instruction: KMenu → KInternet. I can’t find this on my application launcher.
What window manager are you using?
KInternet is the name of the kde network manager. Look for some sort of network manager icon on the taskbar or try looking in yast2>net. devices>net. settings.
Set it to use network manager.
I’d like to try and do this with the networkmanager if possible. From what I can see, if I add something to resolv.conf it will either disable networkmanager, or will be over-written by networkmanager.
I’m using kde and knetworkmanager. I cannot work out how to get knetworkmanager to recognise the modem - all I can see is the eth0 (ethernet LAN connection) and eth1 (the inbuilt wireless card). It doesn’t display anything that looks like the modem, whether or not the modem is active and connected.
Looking further into this, the version of networkmanager which knetworkmanager in SuSE 11.2 wraps does not seem to have the capability to probe for modems (there is no rule in /lib/udev/rules.d relating to modems). Maybe I should just upgrade to SuSE 11.3.
can I ask you: if you right-click on the network manager;
select Edit Connections and left-click;
then in the box that opens if you click Mobile Broadband third along;
then click Add: top right of the three boxes;
OpenSuse then expects you to know the apn settings of your provider: seems for Internode it is internode
If one accepts that, it should create an entry that if you left-click now on network manager, should show …
and if you left-click on that: does it connect?
to see if your system recognises the device as a modem …if you copy and paste the command below
Thanks. My problem is there is no mention of “mobile broadband” when I go into Edit Connections. It has a list of various wireless LANs I have connected to, and on the right three buttons: [New Connection], [Edit Connection] and [Delete Connection].
If I click [New Connection], the only options are “Wireless” or “Wired” - nothing about mobile broadband.
The modem itself works fine if I use wvdial, but has no DNS - networkmanager (or the installed version anyway) seems to be the problem.
thanks; I use gnome and when I right-click network manager and select “edit connections”: I get tabs at the top for wired; wireless; mobile broadband; VPN; and DSL; so I choose the middle one of mobile broadband;