Anyway, I just got rid of Windows XP and installed OpenSUSE 11. I have a little previous experience of Linux, but not much, only a little Ubuntu and Redhat.
My wireless worked fine on XP, but in this is doesn’t. Now my internet works perfectly when an ethernet cable is plugged in (I’m writing from this computer!), but I have no clue how to configure my wireless. By googling, I found this site: Wireless network card - openSUSE . I entered /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware into the terminal and it downloaded something.
To be honest, I just really have no idea what’s going on. If I at least knew the problem, I’d be closer, but I don’t. I don’t know if this will help, but when I enter iwconfig:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:“belkin54g”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:50:C8:4F:06
Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=60/100 Signal level=-70 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
dec lan wrote:
> Hi, sorry if this is a very dumb post, but it’s my first, so please be
> merciful! http://forums.opensuse.org/images/smilies/smile.gif
>
> Anyway, I just got rid of Windows XP and installed OpenSUSE 11. I have
> a little previous experience of Linux, but not much, only a little
> Ubuntu and Redhat.
>
> My wireless worked fine on XP, but in this is doesn’t. Now my internet
> works perfectly when an ethernet cable is plugged in (I’m writing from
> this computer!), but I have no clue how to configure my wireless. By
> googling, I found this site: ‘Wireless network card - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_network_card) . I entered
> /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware into the terminal and it downloaded
> something.
>
> To be honest, I just really have no idea what’s going on. If I at least
> knew the problem, I’d be closer, but I don’t. I don’t know if this will
> help, but when I enter iwconfig:
>
> iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:“belkin54g”
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
> 00:11:50:C8:4F:06
> Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> Encryption key:off
> Link Quality=60/100 Signal level=-70 dBm Noise level=-71
> dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Your wireless seems to have associated with your AP. You can check that the
firmware installation is OK by looking at the output of the dmesg command. If
you enter the command ‘/usr/sbin/iwlist scan’, you should see the APs in your
neighborhood.
To continue, you need to decide if you want to use NetworkManager or the
“traditional” ifup. I recommend the former. You need to start YaST (Start /
Computer / Administrator Settings), select Network Devices and then Network
Settings. Under the Global Tab you pick the method, then add the details for
your wireless.
With NM, you click on the kicker applet, aka KNM (in what Windoze calls the
System Tray) and select “Edit Connection”. In there you can configure the
connection, then hit “Connect and Save”. After that, the main KNM window will
show that wireless connection and you can click on it to connect.
