wireless connection

[bobheaps]

i have just installed suSE 10.3 on my older laptop computer. Windows XP is also installed on it. I have a wireless router connected to my desktop. It is a D-Link 802.11g/2.46Hz. The laptop can connect to the internet wirelessly via Windows but it cannot do so via Linux. If i directly connect the cable modem to the laptop then Linux connects just fine.
What can i do to make the laptop receive the wireless signal?
P.S. You will probably guessed I am new to Linux so could you keep any replies simple to understand

[waterhead]

There is a How-To for this in the tutorial section.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...lan-linux.html

This tutorial is mainly for Broadcom wireless chips. If after you check for your chip's maker (with lspci or lsusb) you have a different chipset, post the results. Also let us know if you still need help.

[bobheaps]

Thanks for your reply
I followed the link and got an output from'lspci' as follows:-

linux:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SMBus (rev 1a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4342
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Con troller (rev 01)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobil ity 9100IGP]
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPR OCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
linux:~ #
Which is the wireless driver?

Regards
Bob

[waterhead]

I'm thinking it's the line with "Wireless LAN Adapter" in it.

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPR OCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)

A little Googling tells me that it could be a Acer laptop you have, and NDISwrapper will work with it. The NDISwrapper supported card list shows it being used on several Acer models;
NDISwrapper

The most common Windows driver used is the 80211g.zip, available from Acer.

[Doog]

Here is the open Suse hardware adapters page.

HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE

[cbu21576]

does bt2 recognize usb wireless cards?? i have a linksys compact -g with speed boost and i cant get it to sweep w/ it

[bobheaps]

Thanks for your help so far.
I changed my whole system to Ubunto7.04(I like the desktop)
I printed out the Linux Tutorial on Wireless LAN in Linux and started following the steps.
1) I got and installed the wrapper ndiswrapper
2) I got the Windows Driver 80211g.zip, unzipped it in Windows XP. installed it in Windows, then copied the drivers folder containing the file neti2220.inf to my home folder in ubuntu
3) I then ran the command ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/neti2220.inf
4) running the command ndiswrapper -l produced
neti2220 : driver installed device (17FE:2220) present
5) I ran modprobe ndiswrapper
6) I ran iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
....
What Next?

[waterhead]

For NDISwrapper you also should do this:

First remove the module
ndiswrapper -r
Then enter these:
ndiswrapper -m
ndiswrapper -ma
ndiswrapper -mi
Now modprobe
modprobe ndiswrapper

Then try the ifup and ifdown commands:

ifup wlan0

I use the KNetworkManager for my wireless, and KWallet stores the password.