Hi all I don’t know a lot about Linux but I’m trying to learn.
I installed openSUSE 11.1 on my laptop. I don’t have a integrated 10/100 or wireless I use USB adapter for both. openSUSE sees both of them at start up. yet during the install and after the os is installed openSUSE will not connect to the INTERNET. I’m under the impression if the device is seen at start up that the drives is working? I’m I right to thank this. Its not just listing the device, it would say some thing like unknown device found or some thing to that affect. So aside from that If I get the device working how do I get my wireless connection working. I cant seem to find a list of available networks to log on to. IT just asked for the type of security and the password, should it not ask for the network and then the pass word lol?
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Well I like the title, It just has don’t ask for help and learn the text interface! I have to say that is a very poor guide. Whats the point of a GUI interface if I wanted a text interface I would just format my drive and install dos. I’m sorry if I’m being rude but we post on the forums because we don’t know what we are doing. I could just go get a book and read what I needed.
I thank this is more or less telling a person they should learn how to rebuild a motor in a car before they should drive.
Open a terminal and go su, then type
hwinfo
post here the info we need relating to/ identifying your wireless device
http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/309432-welcome.html
Thanks I got it working. I thank my main problem was the way its setup. if I use the default program that comes with openSUSE it dose not even let me know I’m connected to the Internet. You have to know the type of security encryption you want to connect with right off the bat. This makes it very hard to know what networks you can connect to. The one nice thing about it is the fact it can detect the surrounding networks. It all so supports both WEP and WPA.
The other program only supports wep and not wpa. You cant auto sense a network, you all so have to know if the network is encrypted or not. You can change networks on the fly thats good.
So is the a utilities that dose both
-Lets you see the network
-Shows you if the network is encrypted or not and with what
-Shows your connection speed and signal strength
-lets you change networks on the fly
Thanks every one
raven warsong wrote:
> Well I like the title, It just has don’t ask for help and learn the text
> interface! I have to say that is a very poor guide. Whats the point of a
> GUI interface if I wanted a text interface I would just format my drive
> and install dos. I’m sorry if I’m being rude but we post on the forums
> because we don’t know what we are doing. I could just go get a book and
> read what I needed.
>
> I thank this is more or less telling a person they should learn how to
> rebuild a motor in a car before they should drive.
Well, FSCK you. If there was a GUI for all the information that is needed to set
up a wireless device, then we would have directed you to it. I spend many hours
helping people like you, and I find it rewarding (for the most part). Of course,
once in a while an a**hole like you comes along.
Of course, I now know your post name and will never respond to your posts ever
again!!
I hope you don’t your first post was rude your guide was crap.
I suggest both of you just forget this as a bad experience.
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The guide is NOT crap, or it would not have been made Sticky by the mods.
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There was no need for the language infered or otherwise or the acusations of ineptitude.
Forgive and Forget, Bad Hair Day - whatever.
the guide is great , the content is good well as well.
(1) DO NOT post a message saying “My wireless doesn’t work, what do I do next?”
Such a message conveys zero information, and just wastes everyone’s time.
yes may be I was a little rude. I was just trying to get some feedback then I got the f word.