USB Wireless shopping

[lunix420dogpoop]

My wireless network card on my laptop doesn't have drivers in Opensuse. Since i use my laptop so much i have decided to buy a USB wireless modem. What is the best supported one to buy? What brand is the most "plug and play" type modem for Opensuse?

[HROAdmin26]

openSuSE HW Compatibility

[valan]

What card is in your laptop? Does it show up when you run the command lspci ? Have you looked for drivers for it?

[lunix420dogpoop]

sorry for the delay in the response: I have a Realtek RTL1817b Wireless 802.11g that isn't supported yet (to my knowledge). I tried messing around with ndiswrapper but a never really got it to work. It's all really confusing to me right now. Thanks for the list HROAdmin26

[waterhead]

I find no listing of a RTL1817b on the Realtek web site. Your card may have a chipset that there are drivers for. Please post the output of this terminal command.

lspci

[lunix420dogpoop]

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
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

Way sorry for the major delay.

[waterhead]

I don't see a wireless card listed in that output, or any network card at all. Maybe they are internal USB connections, post the output of this command:

lsusb

[lunix420dogpoop]

 
lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b027 Chcony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

I think it's the last two

[waterhead]

Are you positive that it is a RTL1817b wireless? When I search for "ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp." I get hits for RTL8187B wireless. It is important that the info you post is correct.

That wireless is reported to work using NDISwrapper, and the Windows driver:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...rkCardsRealTek
Realtek RTL8187B working in Ubuntu 7.10 (using ndiswrapper) « Quilombo Digital

These are Ubuntu links, but should provide info needed for Suse too. I see a Linux driver at the Realtek driver site, for the 2.6.22 kernel.
Realtek

[lunix420dogpoop]

Yes, i am sure it is my wireless card. I installed the RTL8187b driver to ndiswrapper like the tutorial said. I checked to see if it was installed.

ndiswrapper -l
net8187b : driver installed

Then using dmesg i looked for somthing from ndiswrapper and this is what i found.

dmesg
Controllerndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:156): kernel is 32-bit, but Windows driver is not 32-bit;bad magic: 020B
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:216): couldn't prepare driver 'net8187b'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:118): couldn't load driver net8187b; check system

"kernel is 32-bit, but Windows driver is not 32-bit" Does this mean i would have to change from open SuSE 32bit to 64 bit for it to work. i looked for other drivers but there is only one for the RTL8187b on the website. Should i go ahead and buy a usb wireless modem or is there another way?