Wifi troubles on a toshiba

I have a toshiba I recently switch over to opensuse 11.4, so I’m super new to Linux. Since the install I haven’t been able to get the wifi to work, the wired connection works just fine but no luck with the wifi. I have gone through several other post over the last few days but ever time failing miserable. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks Alot!

/sbin/lspci

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
08:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)

hwinfo --netcard
32: PCI 700.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: rBUF.xQq8Ov29x34
Parent ID: QSNP.9Fsx0rE6c20
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:07:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Attansic Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter”
Vendor: pci 0x1969 “Attansic Technology Corp.”
Device: pci 0x1062 “Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter”
SubVendor: pci 0x1179 “Toshiba America Info Systems”
SubDevice: pci 0xff50
Revision: 0xc0
Driver: “atl1c”
Driver Modules: “atl1c”
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0x80a00000-0x80a3ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0x5000-0x5fff (rw)
IRQ: 43 (290988 events)
HW Address: 00:26:9e:64:f2:fd
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: “pci:v00001969d00001062sv00001179sd0000FF50bc02sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: atl1c is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe atl1c”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge)

33: PCI 800.0: 0280 Network controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: GBI1.aVsfxkUkc7B
Parent ID: HnsE.B4lR_zTWfp0
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:08:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:08:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Realtek Network controller”
Vendor: pci 0x10ec “Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.”
Device: pci 0x8172
SubVendor: pci 0x10ec “Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.”
SubDevice: pci 0x8152
Revision: 0x10
I/O Ports: 0x6000-0x6fff (rw,disabled)
Memory Range: 0x80e00000-0x80e03fff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 5 (no events)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010ECd00008172sv000010ECsd00008152bc02sc80i00”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #20 (PCI bridge)

On 08/04/2011 06:26 PM, Nanceyboy wrote:
>
> I have a toshiba I recently switch over to opensuse 11.4, so I’m super
> new to Linux. Since the install I haven’t been able to get the wifi to
> work, the wired connection works just fine but no luck with the wifi. I
> have gone through several other post over the last few days but ever
> time failing miserable. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks
> Alot!
>
> /sbin/lspci
>
> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast
> Ethernet (rev c0)
> 08:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
>
>
> hwinfo --netcard
> 32: PCI 700.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
> [Created at pci.318]
> Unique ID: rBUF.xQq8Ov29x34
> Parent ID: QSNP.9Fsx0rE6c20
> SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:07:00.0
> SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0
> Hardware Class: network
> Model: “Attansic Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter”
> Vendor: pci 0x1969 “Attansic Technology Corp.”
> Device: pci 0x1062 “Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter”
> SubVendor: pci 0x1179 “Toshiba America Info Systems”
> SubDevice: pci 0xff50
> Revision: 0xc0
> Driver: “atl1c”
> Driver Modules: “atl1c”
> Device File: eth0
> Memory Range: 0x80a00000-0x80a3ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
> I/O Ports: 0x5000-0x5fff (rw)
> IRQ: 43 (290988 events)
> HW Address: 00:26:9e:64:f2:fd
> Link detected: yes
> Module Alias:
> “pci:v00001969d00001062sv00001179sd0000FF50bc02sc00i00”
> Driver Info #0:
> Driver Status: atl1c is active
> Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe atl1c”
> Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge)
>
> 33: PCI 800.0: 0280 Network controller
> [Created at pci.318]
> Unique ID: GBI1.aVsfxkUkc7B
> Parent ID: HnsE.B4lR_zTWfp0
> SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:08:00.0
> SysFS BusID: 0000:08:00.0
> Hardware Class: network
> Model: “Realtek Network controller”
> Vendor: pci 0x10ec “Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.”
> Device: pci 0x8172
> SubVendor: pci 0x10ec “Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.”
> SubDevice: pci 0x8152
> Revision: 0x10
> I/O Ports: 0x6000-0x6fff (rw,disabled)
> Memory Range: 0x80e00000-0x80e03fff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
> IRQ: 5 (no events)
> Module Alias:
> “pci:v000010ECd00008172sv000010ECsd00008152bc02sc80i00”
> Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> Attached to: #20 (PCI bridge)

You should have looked in the wireless forum.

Your problem is that the RTL8192SE/RTL8191SE devices are not supported until
kernel 3.0, thus it is not found in the 2.6.37 kernel you are using. The easiest
way is for you to install the compat-wireless package. Instructions for that are
on that forum.

oh thanks, it worked just as you said, thanks alot for the help