Wireless on Fujitsu-Siemens Laptop

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Hello,

Please can someone help me get wireless working on openSUSE 11 on an Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li1818 laptop please?

My wireless card is: sis169u

Thank you in advance,

Lee Jarratt

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Please read our two stickies, and provide the information associated with those stickies:
Welcome - openSUSE Forums
Additional wireless bits - openSUSE Forums

… without that, I think the probability of your getting someone volunteer to help you is much less.

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Okay well…

  1. It’s a sis169u, that’s all I know. It’s in a Amilo li1818 laptop.
  2. …
  3. No error message.
  4. I haven’t tried much since I’m quite new to Linux, plus I’ve never been able to get it working myself on other Linux Distributions such as Ubuntu.
  5. OpenSUSE 11.0
  6. Will do once I get in from work.

Here are the instructions someone posted to me for getting the wireless to work under Ubuntu, if that’s any help:

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sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-common

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mkdir ~/.drivers

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cd ~/.drivers

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wget http://c0lin.org/leeswireless.zip

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unzip -a leeswireless.zip

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cd WLAN

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sudo ndiswrapper -i sis163u.inf

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sudo ndiswrapper -l

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sudo ndiswrapper -m

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sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

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sudo reboot

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sudo gedit /etc/modules

then add this to the bottom of the file after the last line:
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ndiswrapper

Save the file.

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sudo reboot

Edit: Additional Information -

I can connect to the internet through LAN/Ethernet but I’m needing to connect through wireless, It doesn’t show an option for Wireless, no wireless networks are displayed.

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Anyone? :frowning:

Guess I’m going back to Ubuntu again :confused:

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I have some good friends who use Ubuntu, and think it is great. So I hope you share their experience. I won’t disparage another distribution.

I suspect the reason you obtained no response in this thread, is you ignored my post, where I provided a couple of links, which provide specific aspects you are asked to run and provide. You didn’t do that, but rather you gave us what you decided you wanted to give, as opposed to what you were asked. I suspect the users who ‘might’ help you, are still waiting for the answer to the details requested in the threads I quoted.

Best wishes in what ever Linux you decide to go with.

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For well tested instructions howto get this adaptor up and running see the Ubuntu laptop testing team page for the Li1818.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/FujitsuAmiloLi1818

Yes… my page. :slight_smile:

Regards

Phil