Problems with opensuse installation

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:30 pm

Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller <--that's the exact card... just found some gimpy command (lspci or something) that tells me... off to see if i can find proper drivers online now, i didn't read the bit where it said don't use it on cd or something *laughs*

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:44 pm

OK, downloaded the driver, extracted the exe file... having trouble extracting the cab files though for installshield.. any ideas? it's annoying me having to keep asking as I like to figure things out myself but it's all new to me *laughs*

Post by **windhound** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:13 pm

cab? nope. dont bother with that

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... x.php/List
search for your card in that list, I found it listed about 8 different times. #9 gives a link. download it, look in the 'drives' folder. thoes are the only files you need.
(usually drivers are fairly universal for chipsets, the list just divides it up by laptops for thoes that dont know their card type)

open a terminal, go to the driver folder, execute standard ndiswrapper commands

when I had to do it it was easy, because there was a folder on my windows partition containing the drivers. I just copied thoes and it worked fine. now the card is autodetected, which is nicer still.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:08 pm

Blah.. now you tell me

... ok thanks got that will shove into windows root drive so that i can pull it into suse later tomorrow after gimpy work.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:48 pm

linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # ndiswrapper -i /lib/windrivers/BCMWL5.INF
Installing bcmwl5
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
net83815 driver installed
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # modprobe ndiswrapper
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # dmesg

loads of other crap came up but at the bottom it said

ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,07/17/2003, 3.30.15.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ndiswrapper: using irq 201
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:95:0f:ab using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4320.5.conf

Would i need to kill ndiswrapper and restart it with a new installation now? because i messed it up before hand *laughs*... or is it cause i need an ethernet connection up when trying to modprobe? or maybe its cause i need to put something else in?? any ideas?

oh yeah here's something else

linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"linux-aqh0"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Post by **windhound** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:57 pm

Slasher wrote: linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # ndiswrapper -i /lib/windrivers/BCMWL5.INF
Installing bcmwl5
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
net83815 driver installed
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # modprobe ndiswrapper
linux-aqh0:/home/cgilding/Desktop/80211g/Driver # dmesg

the part in bold is good.
you'll want to remove the other driver, but I dont think its hurting anything
the part in bold tells you that ndiswrapper sees the card and has a driver for it to run, which is what you wanted

well, does it work? reboot. see if SuSe sees it. I dont know how SuSe deals with wireless cards

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:34 pm

It does recognize it, it's working. If you have kinternet running (you should, the little network icon in your "system tray"), right-click and see if it "wlan0" is selected under Devices. Then you can get a list of wireless access points.

Further note, here is a version of kinternet I wrote that saves your WPA access keys (which kinternet doesn't):
http://students.washington.edu/jbarbero ... 4.i586.rpm

To install it, download and:

code: Select all

sudo rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kinternet-0.72-4.i586.rpm

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:06 pm

well i rebooted and the light never came on... however I'll give it another shot tonight and see what I can do with it... Thanks for that Beatles, I don't use a wireless key as theres no point since there are only 6 houses out here and they are all old biddies *laughs*

EDIT: Woohoo thanks for your pacience (sp? whatever

) dudes! I'm now posting from SUSE on wifi!!!! XD

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:39 pm

Yay! Thanks windy.

Any other SUSE problems you might have?

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:00 pm

errr well apart from i could do with a better windows emulator than WINE (if there are any), 'cause mIRC decides it's going to crash all the time when i minemise any channel windows on it. I can live with this though it's nothing major as I can just maximise the window i want to focus on and use the channel window list down the sidebar, it will just take some getting used to. (Just encase you are wondering why I want to run mIRC in Linux when there are plenty of other IRC programs about it is because I scripted this one myself the way I want it to be so I can't be bothered learning another scripting language for a Linux IRC Client just yet, not until I'm out of college at least anyways in two years time)

but everything is fine apart from that one thing

Thanks guys....

*COUGH*soon to be looking into cracking into college's wifi

*COUGH*

<span style='font-size:3pt;line-height:100%'>Just kidding</span>

Ohh yeah, by the way I prefer KDE over GNOME.... I'm currently on GNOME though as I thought I'd give it a quick test but then I ended up just using it and getting used to it, but I still prefer KDE... I was wondering if there's any way to convert to KDE without losing anything and reinstalling or anything... If not then never mind I'll just make do with it

Thanks again

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:48 pm

Sure there is -- when you log in, just select KDE instead of GNOME. Your desktop settings are separate from it, but apps and everything run in both.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:25 pm

Ahh thats cool.... apart from it automatically logs me in... I better sort that, bit of a security issue anyways.

Cheers

Post by **windhound** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:33 pm

in fedora atleast you can go System/Administration/Login Screen
under the security tab you can disable auto-login (which I would do anyways, it only take a few seconds to type in your user and pass)

next time you go to login change your session to KDE, and fedora asks if you want to change the default session (again, havnt used SuSe, but I would assume that atleast is universal)

and sure beatles, you helped me set mine up the first time and I was more thick headed than Slasher :*laughs*:

oh, and I think its KDE that creates actual shortcuts on your Desktop, so if you login to Gnome after using KDE you'll have the KDE shortcuts and Gnome's shortcuts on your Desktop (gnome uses nautilus which has its own way of doing things)
other than that they exist fairly peacefully on the same system, and you can use KDE apps like konqueror and K3B in Gnome and Gnome apps like gedit and gnome-terminal in KDE

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:43 pm

Yes, in SUSE it's under YAST, I think Security -> User Accounts.

Don't think you were thick at the time.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:52 pm

Hmm... I can't seem to find where to change it on the login screen, bit I 've only looked briefly... Will have another look later on

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