Hi everyone. I’m new to openSUSE and I just got it to dual boot on my comp with Vista…(yay!)
The only problem is that I cannot connect to the internet. I looked through a couple of other forum topics in which I was instructed to run iwconfig, iwlist, and ifconfig. I could not run ifconfig for some reason.
The results of iwconfig were this:
l0 No Wireless Extensions
eth0 No Wireless Extensions
wmaster0 No Wireless Extensions
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
mode=managed channel:0 access point:invalid
(I’ll have to right down the rest here…)
What’s going on? eth0 and wlan0 are both recognized by the Network Manager…but i can’t connect to the internet. I also went through YaST and it said that my wireless card was not connected. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Haha…yeah that sticky helped a whole lotrotfl!
but…
I did what they said and got the firmware to get everything working but the problem is that I can’t compile the makefile for some reason. When I try to run make in the konsole it just tells me the command isn’t recognized or something. Do you know what’s wrong???
Thanks! I was well on my way to getting everything set up except I found two more problems…
libmudflap0
libmudflapth0
The only one I could find was libmudflap0…and the gcc43 rpm needs them both in order to install. I thought I found the two files before and I installed them (libmudflap and libmudflapth)but the same error came up. I did find libmudflap0 but since I installed libmudflap it wouldn’t let me install libmudflap0. Do you know what I should do next? I’ve gotten make and the linux kernel all installed…I just need to get gcc up and running.
And sorry about all the questions…and I really appreciate your help.
p.s. Did you mean I should just re-install openSUSE?
no, no need to re-install. you should be able to get gcc/gcc++ & all it’s dependencies via YaST. If you select patterns from the top-left drop-down menu,then,scroll down to development & select Base Development & c/c++ development & Linux Kernel Development,that should sort you out
I’m sorry but I can’t find the “Patterns” menu anywhere! I looked in YaST and any place I could think of but I could not find what you were talking about. I looked up Patterns on the web site and the last listing it has was on 10.2, does it go by another name now. Please step me through this…
Does it go like this?
Load up openSUSE from hd (not cd)
Put in Live CD
Open YaST
Look for Patterns (or whatever it goes by now)
Find files on CD
Install files
Reboot
Is this right? I just can’t find that darn “Patterns” thing.
1 ) start p.c. & boot to openSUSE
2 ) open YaST
3 ) click on software management
4 ) click on the top-left drop-down menu
5 ) click on patterns as per screen-shot
I uploaded a screen shot of YaST to show you I really don’t have that Patterns dialog. Is there another way to access it? And if not…how would I go about getting the files?
The only time i saw that was with SuSE 10.1or earlier,or when someone installed from a livecd. Which version of SuSE are you using ? & did you use a livecd to install ?
Ahh, livecd install. they are so limited in what they have on them, they are only good for getting info off your drive if it goes belly-up or just to see if your hardware is compatible. I always advocate using the dvd to install. Add this to your repo list & you will be able to install the necessary bits to help you out, ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse/i586/ i always add the repo for software,just in case i have problems with my dvd or lose/damage it
I got all the files I needed and everything. I installed the broadcom and b43 things…and that worked fine. Now my wireless internet connection even shows up on iwconfig. I went through the series of steps I believe were listed in the stickies, but my internet connection still will not work. I’ll be doing my best to fix this last part of my “Epic Journey to the Internet”
…but if there are any tips or things that you think I forgot please tell me.
You were a great help and thank you for having the patience to deal with me. I sincerely appreciate it.
Cool, glad that it’s now working. A few things to check:-
1 ) check firewall, device should be set to external
2 ) ipv6 should be turned off
3 ) encryption matches that of the router
4 ) if router is using MAC address filtering, make sure your MAC address is added
