How to Connect to Wireless Router ?

[rompstar420]

I installed OpenSuse 10.2 - I have a Microsoft Wireless PCI MN-730 wireless card, which Suse detecte as it is showing in the Control Panel.

In Windows you can see all the available Wireless networks and then you double-click on it and connect using the wep key and click Ok.

How do you do this in Suse ? I can't see any networks available, when I added the right Router name which is: Hello_Wireless, I typed in the right key and all that and it didn't work.

What am I doing wrong ?

Please help, thanks!

[gogalthorp]

You really think MS would allow a product of theirs to work in Linux?

Just kidding but IMO it does lower the odds

check out these to get wireless to work

Ndiswrapper howto - openSUSE

NDISWRAPPER Setup Information (SuSE 10.x, 32-bit)

Some cards will work without ndiswrapper it all depends on the chip set of the card.

So before you do the above go to Yast-Network Devices and see if it can be set up there. If not you must go the ndiswrapper route.

[rompstar420]

Ok, thanks - I'll have a look and keep on reading, the driver seems to be there, but the card do't work, but I'll do more reading.

[rompstar420]

so I issued the command

lspci -v | less

and I got:

Broadcom BCM43xG 802.11b/g (rev 02) and then below that it says
Subsystem: Microsoft Corp Wireless PCI Adapter MN-730

Anyways, I followed the directions to setup the networking, but one question: for Firewall Zone: it's setup under External Zone, should that be that ?

I still see no broadcast from the Wireless Router, and can't see a list of networks that are available to connect to, do you think that I still need a wrapper ?