I’m using a usb Wifi dongle[size=3] F5D7050[/size] which works out of the box for Ubuntu 12.04, so I know it works.
Seems to be recogonised in some ways but I failed utterly to get Yast or Network manager to acknowledge it.
First time with a Suse release for 6 or 7 years…
Am I stupid ? But I’m amazed that this release of Suse hasn’t sort WiFi out…
Or has it and I’ve not stumbled into the right way to get it working?
A very puzzled,
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Tim
On 03/16/2013 05:46 PM, timmoore47 wrote:
> I’ve not stumbled into the right way to get it working?
stumbling is not required…but, reading may be and so far it seem
you have not read what was written in the thread where you previously
posted…
for example, Henk asked you to “provide the information needed for
people to help you” but did not…
what is needed is pointed to post number 3 of the thread you first
posted in http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=484338
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dd
On Sat 16 Mar 2013 04:46:02 PM CDT, timmoore47 wrote:
I’m using a usb Wifi dongle F5D7050
which works out of the box for Ubuntu 12.04, so I know it works.
Seems to be recogonised in some ways but I failed utterly to get Yast
or Network manager to acknowledge it.
First time with a Suse release for 6 or 7 years…
Am I stupid ? But I’m amazed that this release of Suse hasn’t sort
WiFi out…
Or has it and I’ve not stumbled into the right way to get it working?
A very puzzled,
:\
Tim
Hi
I have one of those and plugged it in and it worked fine…I use the
GNOME desktop.
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 050d:705e Belkin Components F5D7050 Wireless G Adapter v5000 [Realtek RTL8187B]
Do you see the device appear like above and in the output of dmesg?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 14:13, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
The RTL8187L device is one of the easiest to use. It requires no external
firmware, and the driver was in the kernel before 2.6.20. Any problems are one
of configuration, and are not due to driver problems.
Many thanks ! Thats exactly what I needed to know.
I will re-install using Gnome !
Brilliant ! Greatly appreciated !
;););)
Tim
I installed Gnome (twice)
And it refused to recognise the ethernet port, also the printer…
As far as I could see the installing disc was OK, the hard disc was OK and the install went well.
I reached the conclusion that the motherboard hardware was just incompatible with Suse 12.3 .
I’d like to thank those who tried to help me and I’m sure that on compatible computers Suse is a good operating system, but I’ve given up.
The very significant install time, including the 10-15 minute search for Linux partitions (jams at 60%) meant that the time overhead was more than I needed right now.
For those who may be interested the PC Motherboard is about 18 months old has 8GB ram 64 bit and 6 core and the hard drive 1TB Htachi Deskstar.
So I’ve installed 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04. So at least I can enjoy the WiFi which come of a ‘3’ unit and offers up to 7MB/s download speed. BT copper broadband was a flakey 1MB/s . (at twice the price of ‘3’)
Thank you again for your help.
Tim
On 03/17/2013 08:16 AM, timmoore47 wrote:
> The very significant install time
enjoy the distro that works for you…but, it was you who decided to
install GNOME (twice) rather than provide the helpers here the info
needed to help set up the dongle correctly…
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dd
LOL Gnome was broken before I altered anything . Sadly no help could have fixed it IMHO. A clean install and not even ethernet worked out of the box (never happened before)…
Pleased that your Suse is Ok, but not for me as my needed for working kit exceedes my curiousity as to why 12.3 was so reluctant to work with my hardware.
I’ve been working with Microcomputers since the early 7-'s, so I’m used to OS’s partially working, I’m just surprised so little in the way of peripherals which were recognised had no way to be utilised (out of the box).
Thank you for your thoughts.
Tim