My Laptop Won't Connect Wireless

[ilysm]

Okay the wireless thing SHOWS wireless networks which are currently around me. In other words it shows that they are there and that your getting a signal but then when you click on them I see a bar and it says like 28% activation stage: configuring device. Then it stops and it says

Connection failure Could not connect to the network. IT does this no matter how strong close or far I am with the network signal.

My wireless cards it says in network settings are

Hewlett-packard Company PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Netowork connection

Hewlett Packard Company RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

My laptop is an Hp pavillion dv6000


What should i do I have opensuse 10.3?

[damunoz]

You might need to install wpa_supplicant. There already are some posts on the network forum that I think you will find intresting and usefull.

[brahan_7]

What wireless driver are you using...ndiswrapper has worked best for me cause it emulates the microsoft drivers...that is good for hp...i run it on a compaq...

I think your not able to talk to the router because of a driver issue...that was my problem before I started using ndiswrapper...

[Chris H]

I get the 28% issue with some distros but not others.

For me it was down to knetwork manager not playing nice with my chipset.

Usually sorted by running ifup ra0 or ifup wlan0 depending on what the wi-fi connection is called.

Might work for you.

[waterhead]

It appears that your wireless would use the ipw3945 Linux module driver. I don't see any newer releases for it, so it may be included in the kernel now. Check to see if it is already loading.

/sbin/lsmod

If not, try loading it (as root).

 modprobe ipw3945

Here are some links to that driver:
Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver for Linux

NDIswrapper may also work.

[waterhead]

I just located a Suse 10.3 How-To for that driver:

Suse 10.3 Ipw3945 Driver - SuSE Linux Forums

[waterhead]

I missed this one:

There was a new driver included in the release of the 2.6.24 kernel (Jan, 28. It is named iwl3945. Here's the web page for it.

iwl3945 - Linux Wireless