Audio & Wireless Driver for Suse Ver 9.3

[jleraj]

Dear Friends

I am very much a newbie to Linux. Yesterday I installed Suse Linux 9.3 in my laptop. But I can not play any audio songs. Real Player 10 shows that file is being played. But not output can be heard. My audio card is RealTek High Definition Audio

Also, my wireless lan (BroadComm) is not detected. If any one of you could tell me where i can drivers for these two (audio & wireless), It will be great. Also, I would like to know how to connect to a windows workgroup from linux.


Regards


Edward

[valemon]

I would suggest installing a newer version of opensuse. (in october opensuse 10.3 is released) Your kernel is too old and lacks support. Your wireless should work using ndiswrapper. The best thing to do however is install a newer version.

[Giles]

The sound issue might just be a matter of running

alsamixer

from the command line, and unmuting (and bringing up the volume) of any relevant channels. Equally it might well not be that - you could also try running

alsaconfig

as root, or looking at sound config in YAST. Beyond that I've got no idea, I'm afraid.

As to the wireless issue, it'll depend on exactly what chipset the card uses. Run

lspci

and post the line about wireless here.

Toodle-oo
Giles

EDIT: Valemon and I were obviously writing at the same time - I guess he probably knows more than me, so ignore this if you like...

[jleraj]

Dear Giles


As required, Given below is the output of the cmd lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 27a0 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 27a2 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 27a6 (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub High Definition Audio (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub EHCI USB (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 27b9 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile I/O Controller Hub SATA cc=IDE (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation I/O Controller Hub SMBus (rev 02)
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)
0000:05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:05:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832
0000:05:06.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 19)
0000:05:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
0000:05:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0592 (rev 0a)
0000:05:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0852 (rev 05)

As for sound, I can hear songs through headphone, but not through speakers.Kindly revert back.

Regards

Edward

[bigtomrodney]

I would also strongly recommend the upgrade to 10.2 or 10.3rc1 if you can. Your system is out of support and simply will not have the drivers for everything. Also there were a few kernel improvements in the later releases that will improve battery time on a laptop by a very considerable amount.

[Giles]

Wireless
this is the line we're interested in

0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)

(for future reference it helps if you put blocks like that inside [ code ] tags)
Unfortunately, since it's not recognised, you need to update your pci.ids file... It looks like it may be a lot simpler to upgrade your version of SuSE - not just because of this particular problem (it's relatively easy to put in a new pci.ids file), but because we'll probably keep running into problems like this...

Audio
Odd that it should work through earphones but not speakers - are you sure it's not just that the speakers have died?

Toodle-oo
Giles

[jleraj]

Dear Pals

Thanks for your timely help & suggstns. I will upgrade to latest one. Thanks again


Edward

[jleraj]

Dear Friends

As suggessted by some of our pals, I have installed Open Suse 10.3RC1. Now i can connect ot internet through the lan cable. Also I can ping other nodes in my windows XP workgroup. But i can not access their drives (like c,d,e). I used smbclient but it said Bad Network Name.

Also I can not connect to the lan using my WLAN. It is from BroadComm and the adapter name is displayed correctly in the list. But in the network devices list only the ethernet adapter is shown.

Please help me to connect to the windows XP workgroup


Regards

Edward