Wireless connection issues

[njsfour]

Hello everyone new to this forum and linux. Just installed opensuse on my ibm x61 laptop. I am having issues connecting to the wireless router. It sees all the available wifi but when I go to connect it won't. Previously I had ubuntu and sabayon linux on this same laptop and never had a problem. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[artemn]

Did you install ndiswrapper wifi driver or you're trying native linux driver?

Here is quick note on this:
Configuring the ndiswrapper driver for wireless controllers without native Linux drivers - Linux Laptop Wiki

Also you're welcome to provide more information on what version of opensuse you have.

[njsfour]

ok I did some research before i posted. I am running opensuse 10.3. I also have intel 3945abg on my laptop which when i checked is supported by suse. I google my problem and did some command line things which may give more experienced
users a insight into my problem.

logged in to terminal and did the ifconfig output

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:163:C6:F6:AF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Base address:0x1840 Memory:fe000000fe020000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:BF:07:9F:CA
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:bfff:fe07:9fca/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:70 dropped:117 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:151762 (148.2 Kb) TX bytes:20327 (19.8 Kb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000 Memory:dfcff000dfcfffff
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2020 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:2020 (1.9 Kb)


Also on another forum saw a user having the same issues he resolved it using the dhclient command which didn't work for me. the output

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
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Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit ISC DHCP
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1c:bf:07:9f:ca
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1c:bf:07:9f:ca
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:d3:c6:f6:af
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:16:d3:c6:f6:af
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.106 renewal
in 1527 seconds.
3(NXDOMAIN):/home/michael #

I hope that this new info can help someone help me. I am extremely new to linux.

thanks again linux newbie out

[brahan_7]

Did you install ndiswrapper wifi driver or you're trying native linux driver?

Here is quick note on this:
Configuring the ndiswrapper driver for wireless controllers without native Linux drivers - Linux Laptop Wiki

Also you're welcome to provide more information on what version of opensuse you have.

This is the best thing to do...once ndiswrapper is installed opensuse should be able to automatically find you router and configure a connection...I tinkered with manual driver installations and kernel updates and configs for a month before trying ndiswrapper...With ndiswrapper everything should configure auto...did you try it?