dell inspiron 1525 wifi problem with opensuse 10.3

[tosa]

#the following is all about my laptop and opensuse
#so can anyone help me for turning my wifi ON




============ lspci ============



============ lsusb ============

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.

Bus 005 Device 004: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp.

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000



============ lsmod ============

Module Size Used by

bridge 53272 0

iptable_filter 6912 0

ip_tables 16324 1 iptable_filter

x_tables 18308 1 ip_tables

ipv6 268152 16

snd_pcm_oss 50432 0

snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_seq 54452 0

snd_seq_device 12172 1 snd_seq

cpufreq_conservative 11272 0

cpufreq_userspace 8704 0

cpufreq_powersave 5888 0

acpi_cpufreq 13192 1

speedstep_lib 9220 0

microcode 15372 0

apparmor 40736 0

fuse 45460 6

loop 21636 0

dm_mod 56880 0

rfcomm 43928 0
l2cap 30336 9 rfcomm
snd_hda_intel 272796 1
sdhci 20364 0
hci_usb 20124 2
snd_pcm 82564 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
bluetooth 57172 7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
ohci1394 36272 0
battery 14724 0
snd_timer 26756 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 58164 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ndiswrapper 174328 0
uvcvideo 48772 0
usbhid 41300 0
mmc_core 29828 1 sdhci
i2c_i801 12560 0
ac 9604 0
ieee1394 91136 1 ohci1394
i2c_core 27520 1 i2c_i801
button 12432 0
soundcore 11460 1 snd
firmware_class 13568 2 microcode,uvcvideo
hid 29184 1 usbhid
snd_page_alloc 13960 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 10756 0
compat_ioctl32 5376 1 uvcvideo
videodev 30464 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 16388 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common 20608 2 uvcvideo,videodev
intel_agp 27156 1
agpgart 35764 2 intel_agp
joydev 13632 0
sr_mod 19492 0
ff_memless 9352 1 usbhid
sg 37036 0
cdrom 37020 1 sr_mod
rtc_cmos 12064 0
rtc_core 23048 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 7040 1 rtc_core
sd_mod 31104 7
ehci_hcd 34956 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
usbcore 123372 7 hci_usb,ndiswrapper,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_ hcd
edd 12996 0
ext3 131848 2
mbcache 12292 1 ext3
jbd 68148 1 ext3
fan 9220 0
thermal 19848 0
processor 40744 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
ata_piix 21380 0
ahci 29188 6
libata 136776 2 ata_piix,ahci
scsi_mod 140376 4 sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata


============ dmesg-firmware ============



============ kernel version ============


2.6.22.5-31-default

[reed9]

lspci really returns nothing? Did you try is as /sbin/lspci?

As it stands, I don't see a wireless device recognized at all. You are loading ndiswrapper, which is a program to use a windows xp wireless driver under linux.

What is the output of ndiswrapper -l?

[tosa]

I had installed windows driver and one atheros driver by ndiswrapper
but I think I am using windows 7, so it is giving problem,otherwise forums say that xp's driver work well.

I had already wasted a lot with this,I think of switching to Fedora 11, with more better GUI and a great wifi support. It will help.As I am a newbie so It doesn't matter to me to use any kind of Linux ,after all it is an linux

[waterhead]

Yes, installing a newer version of Linux is recommended. Whether Fedora 11, Suse 11.2 or Ubuntu 9.04. Newer versions will have better wireless support. Then run the script again, and post the output.

And PLEASE don't install NDISwrapper until we know what you have, and can make some recommendations.