OpenSuSE 11, Kinternet is working, but it senses no wireless??

Edward78 · 6 Aug 2010 at 04:28

I have the wireless wrapper & it supports my card. I thought I had the setup right, but when I scan, no wireless networks come up. In windows I connect to the wireless fine, my dad has Ubuntu & it works fine in it, I just don't want to start over with a new install if I don't need to. If there is no answer by the time I get on & check the forum tomorrow, I guess I will start over with Ubuntu...

Edward78 · 6 Aug 2010 at 16:10

I seem to have everything, it connects, but won't go anywhere. I do get this error.

Sorry if pic is to big.

Edward78 · 6 Aug 2010 at 16:40

FirebarUK said:
Network manager should control that but put this line in your /etc/resolv.conf file:

nameserver routers_ip_address

e.g:

nameserver 192.168.1.1

Ok thanks, so why does wired work but not wireless?? It is kind of strange this just effects wireless.

Edward78 · 6 Aug 2010 at 17:15

jack.mitchell said:
Are you using ndiswrapper and a windows driver to control the wireless dongle? If so this sometimes causes funny stuff to happen.

Just the wrapper I think, how can I check?? I put the nameserver in (the routers ip) and still no go. It should be easier. Oh crap, I put nameserver in resolve.conf not name server.

The router ip should still come up in firefox regardless right. Everthing seems to go right accept the going somewhere, I scan, the network pops up & I connect. I am still getting the no name server crao. Is there a speceal way to put it in? I put in name server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx & that didn't work, so where it says domain site in resolve.conf I put the ip there to, but seems to be a no go. When I put the router ip in firefox, can't even get to that. I have Ubuntu on the desk, the wireless just works with the wrapper on that, it would be the easy way out, but I don't want to ditch OpenSuSE & start over. It is like I am in a car, it is started, but just won't go.

Edward78 · 6 Aug 2010 at 18:44

jack.mitchell said:
Did you have to install the windows .inf file?

Nope. If I can figure out the nameserver crap, I am thinking it will work. How should that look in resolve.conf?
Nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx tried that & name server, no go. The driver is there, when I dmesg | grep firmware I get zd1211rw 2-7:1.0: firmware version 4725 everything looks ok in hardware info also. :confused:

Just made the network secure & now when I connect it says

I just put Ubuntu on, so I should be good very soon.

Edward78 · 7 Aug 2010 at 16:46

jack.mitchell said:
Good idea, I've never been a fan of Suse. I don't know what was going wrong but it was strange, also how come it was running KDE 3? Is this still an option with Suse?! If you want to run KDE remember that there is also Kubuntu!

Gnome seems alright, 11 had the option for KDE 3, the recent ones prob. do to. Not sure why OpenSuSE was such a pain, I thought I did everything right. Oh well Ubuntu is cool, downloaded the wrapper, chose the driver & after all the updates came in on the wire, it started working.

Edward78 · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:28

FirebarUK said:
Latest versions of OpenSUSE default on KDE 4. OpenSUSE 11.3 doesn't have an option for KDE 3, you have to manually add some repos and fudge it slightly.

It could have been a number of problems, perhaps:

1) Needed NetworkManager patching
2) Get rid of ndiswrapper!
3) Perhaps KDE3 pushed into OpenSUSE 11 caused some issues

Looks like we'll never know!

Oh well, Ubuntu is great anyway.