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From: Totally Confused! on 8 Mar 2010 04:59 Installed Suse 11.2 to a Toshiba netbook Satellite T10. Full install, no Windows partition. Network cards, as detected by "hardware information" are Atheros AR8132/ L1c Gigabyte Ethernet Adapter, and Realtek Network Controller (I presume for the wireless connection?) However I am unable to use either to get any network connections. Yast2 network settings detects the Athenos card with message "unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (Eth0, Wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for Wlan devices). See dmesg output for details" (I had a look at file dmesg which an executable???). The Realtek card shows as "Ethernet Network Card (no hwinfo). Question - how do I get these cards working? fairly new to this Linux thing, so please be kind! And as usual, T.I.A.
From: Krudd the Dudd on 8 Mar 2010 05:01 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:59:55 +0000, Totally Confused! wrote: > Installed Suse 11.2 to a Toshiba netbook Satellite T10. Sorry, my bad, that should read Toshiba T110. Apologies.
From: DenverD on 8 Mar 2010 07:32 try this: http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse112/book_opensuse_startup/?page=/documentation/opensuse112/book_opensuse_startup/data/book_opensuse_startup.html and, on the left click on "Accessing the internet" and/or "Using Network Manager" -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: Michael Soibelman on 11 Mar 2010 01:01 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:59:55 +0000, Totally Confused! wrote: > Installed Suse 11.2 to a Toshiba netbook Satellite T10. > > Full install, no Windows partition. > > Network cards, as detected by "hardware information" are Atheros AR8132/ > L1c Gigabyte Ethernet Adapter, and Realtek Network Controller (I presume > for the wireless connection?) > > However I am unable to use either to get any network connections. > > Yast2 network settings detects the Athenos card with message "unable to > configure the network card because the kernel device (Eth0, Wlan0) is > not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for Wlan > devices). See dmesg output for details" > > (I had a look at file dmesg which an executable???). > > The Realtek card shows as "Ethernet Network Card (no hwinfo). > > Question - how do I get these cards working? > > fairly new to this Linux thing, so please be kind! > > And as usual, T.I.A. You'll need to install the 'madwifi' package as this contains the Atheros driver(s) you need...me thinks.
From: Ulick Magee on 16 Mar 2010 15:06
Michael Soibelman wrote: > > You'll need to install the 'madwifi' package as this contains the Atheros > driver(s) you need...me thinks. In this case the Atheros chipset is for the ethernet interface, not wireless. Anyway most if not all Atheros wireless chipsets have support built in to kernels >= 2.6.27 (11.1 or later.) With 11.0 I had to use madwifi. -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org |