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My machine is able to access network on wire but it is not available on wireless. Seems like my network card for wireless cannot be detected. where can i go ...
  1. 10-31-2007 #1
    vitalstrike82
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    Wire network is ok but unable to connect to wireless and wireless card is not detect

    My machine is able to access network on wire but it is not available on wireless. Seems like my network card for wireless cannot be detected. where can i go to set up my wireless on suse?

    Thanks for your guidance
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  2. 10-31-2007 #2
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    Which version of suse, what make of wireless card ??
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  3. 10-31-2007 #3
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    suse linux enterprise desktop 10 is what i have install.
    My network card is Dell wireless 1390 WLAN mini card..

    Thanks...
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  4. 10-31-2007 #4
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    Open the konsole and type the following commands as root
    lspci
    iwconfig
    post the output here
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    Do you have ndiswrapper installed? this tool allows you to use the windows driver required by some wlan cards on you linux system
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  6. 11-01-2007 #6
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    here is a good guide for it.

    Wireless Networking with ndiswrapper | TUX

    i have the same card and it worked for me. just make sure you use the xp driver and not vista
    the .inf file should be bcmwl5 and not bcmwl6
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  7. 11-01-2007 #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by valemon View Post
    Open the konsole and type the following commands as root post the output here
    Hi these are the output.

    Code:
     # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4380
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4387
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4388
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4389
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 438a
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 438b
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4386
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4385 (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 438c
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4383
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 438d
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4384
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
    Code:
     # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.
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  8. 11-01-2007 #8
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    Looks like you will need to use ndiswrapper the card is a bcm43xx, try the guide as posted by byronsky
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