I just put open suse 11.0 on a dell inspiron 6000 laptop. I want to get the wireless running but can’t figure out how to tell the computer to connect to my home wireless network. Does this linux distribution have something equivalent to the ‘view wireless networks’ tool in windows?
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Assuming your wireless card was detected properly the Network Manager
tool in the system tray area does this. When not connected this looks
like two little computers with (I think) a red ‘x’ in there. Click on
it and you should be shown the available (broadcasting SSIDs) networks
and you can also configure other networks in there. In my personal
opinion Network manager is easier than the options in windows.
Good luck.
tedallm wrote:
| I just put open suse 11.0 on a dell inspiron 6000 laptop. I want to get
| the wireless running but can’t figure out how to tell the computer to
| connect to my home wireless network. Does this linux distribution have
| something equivalent to the ‘view wireless networks’ tool in windows?
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Also, you may find yourself happier in the wireless forums which are a
child of this forum as it focuses on wireless specifically and has a lot
of help on getting it working.
Good luck.
ab@novell.com wrote:
| Assuming your wireless card was detected properly the Network Manager
| tool in the system tray area does this. When not connected this looks
| like two little computers with (I think) a red ‘x’ in there. Click on
| it and you should be shown the available (broadcasting SSIDs) networks
| and you can also configure other networks in there. In my personal
| opinion Network manager is easier than the options in windows.
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| Good luck.
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| tedallm wrote:
| | I just put open suse 11.0 on a dell inspiron 6000 laptop. I want to get
| | the wireless running but can’t figure out how to tell the computer to
| | connect to my home wireless network. Does this linux distribution have
| | something equivalent to the ‘view wireless networks’ tool in windows?
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try this command in a console: /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
e.g. here’s some typical output:
ath0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:6C:3D:81:8A
ESSID:"avondale"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 5)
Quality=24/70 Signal level=-71 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
You should be able to pick out your interface name (e.g. ath0), the network name or essid,(e.g. avondale), channel (e.g. 5), and so on.
If you want to see whether you’re connected OK, try the command: /usr/sbin/iwconfig, which might give a return like this:
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"avondale" Nickname:"suse110"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C:3D:81:8A
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=14/70 Signal level=-81 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
When I hit the green globe in the system tray (this is the network tool, right?) it shows ‘eth0’ and ‘wlan0’. But I don’t see my home network.
Here’s what I see when I run iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And here’s the output of ‘iwlist scan’:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down
Does this mean anything to anyone? Thanks.
The Dell 6000 wireless works according to the openSUSE hardware compatibility list. And somethings ticking according to iwconfig, so maybe it just needs to tbe configured:
q1: Do you see the wireless interface in Yast → network devices → network settings?
q2: did you try to configure the network in yast?