Please help, I am new to Linux and Suse. I have installed Suse 11.1 and I am unable to connect to the internet thru my wireless card.
Yast2 networking settings sees the card and when I go into it and edit it sees my wireless network after it scans. I have selected the authentication mode. I even have gone as far as turning off my wireless security at my wireless modem then selecting none in the network settings on my linux system.
From what I can tell it never turns on even after rebute linux.
There is no world designator on the tool bar to click to select wifi network.
Please understand this is all new to me and I am in a learning proccess.
Is NetworkManager (NM) running? Is your network controlled by NM? Start YaST
(“Start” => Computer => YaST), then select Network Devices => Network Settings
=> Global Options to answer the latter question. I’m assuming a KDE desktop.
First thing is to find out which wireless network adapter you have in your system.
There are two ways of doing that, the easy command line way, and the more complicated “Windows” way.
The easy way is to run a “terminal” (you should see that on your main menu), then copy and paste the following line into it, and press enter:
/sbin/lspci | grep etwork
Then copy any line that it prints out and post it here in this thread.
The long way is to run Yast2 (it’s called Administrator Settings and can be found on your main menu under System -> Settings I believe).
Then click on the “Hardware” tab on the left and select “Hardware Information” in the right pane.
After a while another window will open with all your hardware information. Search through it for WLAN or anything that says “Wireless”. Copy the information and post it here.