[opensuse] Wireless and Xen

I had a trail license of VMware, and it is coming to its end and I have to say I wasn't to impressed with it so I am working on uninstalling that and using Xen. I have Xen installed and I have my broadcom wireless card installed with NDISwrapper so I thought maybe if I installed then Xen Kenel

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:00:58 +1030 Rodney Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:22:18 GR wrote: > > I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it. > > > > The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as > > per instructions on the web. I managed

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

On Wed January 2 2008 21:46:16 Richard Atcheson wrote: > Carlos,  I have the same wifi card on two machines.  Similar problem > to yours,   It appears the card is not being powered on by the LInux > drivers setup. Booting to xp allows the card to be powered up as > evident by the little lite on the

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:22:18 GR wrote: > I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it. > > The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as per > instructions on the web. I managed to connect to my wireless lan > (802.11g, hidden SSID, WPA-2 encryption) fine with K

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 4:18 pm Carlos F. Lange wrote: > Another annoying behaviour is that KNetworkManager sometimes does > not "see" my home network nor the neighbour's, only some "default" (we > broadcast the SSID). I tried to wait a little to see if my network was > not announcing itself i

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

On Wed January 2 2008 14:52:18 GR wrote: > I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it. > > The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as per > instructions on the web. I managed to connect to my wireless lan > (802.11g, hidden SSID, WPA-2 encryption) fine wit

[opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it. The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as per instructions on the web. I managed to connect to my wireless lan (802.11g, hidden SSID, WPA-2 encryption) fine with KNetworkManager. However, since that one and on

[opensuse] Wireless under both 10.2 and 10.3

Hi everyone! I;m using both SUSE 10.2 and 10.3 beta 7, and I;ve noticed something crop up just in the past few weeks with NetworkManager. I have an Atheros card with the MadWifi driver, and it;s always worked fine. But several weeks ago, NetworkManager started to display that ALL (about 5) wireles

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Woes

Jeremy Figgins wrote: > The version of the linux-wlan-ng drivers that are included with SuSE are > 0.2.7. I just tried the newest (0.2.8) and it didn't help. The problem > seems to be related to SIOCSIFFLAGS message, which I read somewhere else > is related to the interrupts. I did a cat /proc/inte

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Woes

The version of the linux-wlan-ng drivers that are included with SuSE are 0.2.7. I just tried the newest (0.2.8) and it didn't help. The problem seems to be related to SIOCSIFFLAGS message, which I read somewhere else is related to the interrupts. I did a cat /proc/interrupts, but my wireless card w

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Woes

I checked /var/log/messages with the prism2 card and all of it seemed normal until: ifup: wlan0 ifup-dhcp: Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0... ifup-dhcp: . kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17 dhcpcd[3854]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device ifup-dhcp: . ifup-dhcp: . syslog

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Woes

try manual load module: modprobe you_module check if is ok dmesg and check interface iwconfig Dnia 4 października 2007 14:56 Jeremy Figgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał(a): > I've tried that, but it doesn't seem to work (in either 10.1 or 10.2). > After I enter the module name and the c

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Woes

Just open Yast add new card and in hardware optiond use module field Dnia 4 października 2007 14:17 Jeremy Figgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał(a): > > > I've got a handful of wireless cards that I'm having trouble getting to > work with SuSE. I need some pointers on where the configuration fil

[opensuse] Wireless Woes

I've got a handful of wireless cards that I'm having trouble getting to work with SuSE. I need some pointers on where the configuration files are. Basically, I need to know how/where it gets decided that a particular card is going to be called wlan or rausb or whatever. And I need to know what tr

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrés Cosa wrote: > Ok, > > My router has an option to disable ssid broadcast. > > The option was unticked (that is I disabled broadcast in the past). If I > enable that option it works fine. I'll try to find out if there is any > other option to al

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

No, the other way round. if I DISABLE the SSID broadcast in the router I cannot connect but if I ENABLE SSID broadcast in the router I can connect. Kai Ponte wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2007 05:23, Andrés Cosa wrote: > >> Ok, >> >> My router has an option to disable ssid broadcast. >> >> Th

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

On Monday 24 September 2007 05:23, Andrés Cosa wrote: > Ok, > > My router has an option to disable ssid broadcast. > > The option was unticked (that is I disabled broadcast in the past). If I > enable that option it works fine. I'll try to find out if there is any > other option to allow it to work

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

Ok, My router has an option to disable ssid broadcast. The option was unticked (that is I disabled broadcast in the past). If I enable that option it works fine. I'll try to find out if there is any other option to allow it to work in those conditions (don't recall seeing anyone though). Any idea

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Ponte wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:09, Andrés Cosa wrote: >> Hi, I installed open suse 10.3 beta 3. After a week I managed to have >> the wireless working. Yesterday gnome update downloaded heaps of updates > > > >> WIRELESS_MODE='M

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

Hi Kai, I have been using Network Manager to do some changes, but I don't think that is the issue. Before the update it was working perfect. The only thing is that I had to call iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid on startup. But other than that was working ok. After restarting the laptop the first tim

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:09, Andrés Cosa wrote: > Hi, I installed open suse 10.3 beta 3. After a week I managed to have > the wireless working. Yesterday gnome update downloaded heaps of updates > WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' Isn't this stating that you have Network Manager doing your dirty

[opensuse] Wireless Intel 4965AGN

Hi, I installed open suse 10.3 beta 3. After a week I managed to have the wireless working. Yesterday gnome update downloaded heaps of updates (I imagine is because of RC1) and now my wireless just won't work any more. I have it in manual mode as I couldn't manage to make it work with the Network M

Re: [opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

John E. Perry wrote: > Aaron Siegel wrote: >> Hello >> >> What is the manufacture of your wireless, chipset. If you have windows >> running in the computer you can find this infomation there. Have you looked >> in the output of dmesg. It can also be found in the specification from >> Acer. S

Re: [opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > What is the manufacture of your wireless, chipset. If you have windows > running in the computer you can find this infomation there. Have you looked > in the output of dmesg. It can also be found in the specification from > Acer. So how is your italian? http:

Re: [opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

ay, August 26, 2007 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300 Hello What is the manufacture of your wireless, chipset. If you have windows running in the computer you can find this infomation there. Have you looked in the output of dmesg. It can also be found in

Re: [opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

Hello What is the manufacture of your wireless, chipset. If you have windows running in the computer you can find this infomation there. Have you looked in the output of dmesg. It can also be found in the specification from Acer. So how is your italian? http://www.ziobudda.net/aspire_9300

[opensuse] wireless card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

Hello, I am looking for the opensuse 10.2 web page that lists drivers for specific hardware (laptops); can someone point me to that? Can't seem to detect the wireless card for the Acer Aspire 9300. Many thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] Wireless troubles in 10.2 installation

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Jos van Kan wrote: > I hate to think what would have happened, had I been a newbie trying linux > for the first time. The problem is well known btw, as the 18700 google hits > on "suse 10.2 bcm43xx firmware" testify. Among those a substantial amount > consists of newbies be

[opensuse] Wireless troubles in 10.2 installation

Until recently I have shied away from replacing my rock solid 9.3 system with anything newfangled, but since support is probably going to stop in the foreseeable future I decided to do a parallell installation of 10.2, just to see if I would run into any trouble. The 10.2 distro I got from a DVD t

Re: [opensuse] Wireless PCI card

Matthew Stringer wrote: since moving house there's no socket to plug my PC in so will have to use wireless, can anyone recommend a PCI card for use with 10.2? Was thinking of using a netgear one, unless folks here say otherwise. Friends who have been involved with Linux and wireless for a

[opensuse] Wireless PCI card

Hi, since moving house there's no socket to plug my PC in so will have to use wireless, can anyone recommend a PCI card for use with 10.2? Was thinking of using a netgear one, unless folks here say otherwise. Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Hi: Worked like a charm :) Doing my email via my now functional wireless Thanks Gord On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:05, Ben Kevan wrote: > Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss > repository > > You should be fine then. > > Ben > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordo

Re: [opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

thanks, Works like a charm. Replying via my functional wireless networking Gord On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:05, Ben Kevan wrote: > Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss > repository > > You should be fine then. > > Ben > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordon J. H

Re: [opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Le Jeudi 10 Mai 2007 22:08, Gordon J. Holtslander a écrit : > Hi: > > Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless > 3945ABG. > > I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2 > > before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to > communicate

Re: [opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb Gordon J. Holtslander: [...] > > I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: > http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ > > I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking > functional. > > I assume that since YAST recognizes that there i

Re: [opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss repository You should be fine then. Ben On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote: > Hi: > > Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless > 3945ABG. > > I'm trying to get the wireless

[opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Hi: Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2 before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop. After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

Jerry Feldman wrote: > On SuSE 10.2 there is a wireless driver, from memory, it is bcm43xx.ko. > It requires the firmware. To extract the firmware from a Windows > bcmwl5.sys file, and place the firmware into /lib/firmware. http://www.root-forum.org/downloads/openSUSE_10.2/WLAN/noarch/bcm43xx-fir

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:09:35 -0400 Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have > tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know > how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Bro

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know how to do this in a real easy step b

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Monday 23 April 2007 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have > tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone > know > how to do this in a r

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Broa

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

> On Monday 23 April 2007 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I >> have >> > tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know >> > how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Broad

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

On Monday 23 April 2007 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have > > tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know > > how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Broadcom 43xx >

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

> Hello, > > I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have > tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know > how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Broadcom 43xx > mini pci card in it. > > Any help would really be apprecia as I a

[opensuse] Wireless Setup

Hello, I am trying to setup wireless for my Compaq R3000 AMD notebook. I have tried using ndiswrappers but have been unsuccessful. Would anyone know how to do this in a real easy step by step way? It has a Broadcom 43xx mini pci card in it. Any help would really be apprecia as I am stuck i

[opensuse] wireless connection not there, but it is?

I'm having issues with getting the wireless connection to work in 10.2. The card seems to be detected fine, and I don't see any sort of complaints about unsupported or driver issues from anywhere. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Or doesn't think it is? It's detected as an HP BCM4306 (w

[opensuse] Wireless is always driving me crazy

Hi People, The worst day is Monday? Maybe. But what if it's Monday and the wireless card doesn't work properly? That's the worst one. :) Here is the story. Unfortunately I had to reinstall openSuSE because of a bad disk. Install install install and I finally managed to configure anything but one

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I tried writing the configuration file "ifcfg-wlan0" in /etc/sysconfig/network, but Yast2 detected this as another (absent) interface. Any help will be appreciated. Teilhard The following link give a fairly comprehensive set of inform

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: No, it seems the firmware is not in the distribution. I find these packages in Berlios, where they provide the driver. Perhaps you are right and it is only intended for Fedora Core. On my DVD is atmel-firmware-1.3-34.noarch.rpm. i am running 10.2 x86_64. Did you install

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On my DVD is atmel-firmware-1.3-34.noarch.rpm. i am running 10.2 > x86_64. Did you install from DVD or CD? If CD, set up the odd and > non-oss sources, or just download and install. That should get you going. > > Oops, make that oss and non-oss. Typo alert. -- Jo

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: > No, it seems the firmware is not in the distribution. I find these > packages > in Berlios, where they provide the driver. Perhaps you are right and > it is > only intended for Fedora Core. > On my DVD is atmel-firmware-1.3-34.noarch.rpm. i am running 10.2 x86_64. Did you

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 detects the card all right. Problem is, when I try to configu

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

The Sunday 2007-04-08 at 10:24 -0500, Teilhard Knight wrote: > denied" every time I try to copy them there as a root. I just cannot > explain > myself why I can get the permission to write in that folder denied if I > am > root. Maybe you can tell me something. And what is a firmware cutter?

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: > I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my > wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of > the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 > detects > the card all right. Problem is, when I try to

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello: > > I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my > wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of > the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 > detects > the card all right. Problem is, wh

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-08 at 10:24 -0500, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > denied" every time I try to copy them there as a root. I just cannot explain > > myself why I can get the permission to write in that folder denied if I am > > root. Maybe you can tell

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-08 at 10:05 -0500, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I get: "permission > denied" every time I try to copy them there as a root. I just cannot explain > myself why I can get the permission to write in that folder denied if I am > root. Is

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 detects the card all right. Problem is, when I try

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 detects the card all right. Problem is, when I try to

[opensuse] Wireless configuration

Hello: I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 detects the card all right. Problem is, when I try to configure the card the

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

Robert Smits wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote: > >> Yikes. couple days? >> Throw that thing away and get a Logitech wireless optical. >> My wife got one for christmas and she till has not replaced >> the batteries. She uses it for a couple hours every day and >> can't

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:21, Robert Lewis wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > >>> pelibali wrote: > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAA

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

Hi, On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:19:33 -0900 John Andersen <.> wrote: > > > > does this mouse require the rf dongle to be clipped under the mouse when > > not in use as it does on the Logitech i have that is almost a year old > > and still on the same pair of AA cles i installed when it was given to

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

Doug McGarrett wrote: temporarily set up Linux on your brother's laptop (the same version you use) and then test, you could determine. if it's hardware or Linux. If it turns out to be hardware, you should alert the manufacturers of your machine and its video card. (And the mouse!) They will ce

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

> > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a > > wired version on my son's notebook PC. The battery in the wireless >

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On 13 March 07 20:41, John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > > > pelibali wrote: > > > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longe

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote: > Yikes. couple days? > Throw that thing away and get a Logitech wireless optical. > My wife got one for christmas and she till has not replaced > the batteries. She uses it for a couple hours every day and > can't be bothered to shut it off.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: >> >>> pelibali wrote: >>> batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > > pelibali wrote: > > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > > > I am using a Logi

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > pelibali wrote: > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a > wired

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:41, Dave Howorth wrote: > pelibali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using recharge

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:25, pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and th

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. N

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they las

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a wired version on my son's notebook PC. The battery in the wireless seem

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

pelibali wrote: > In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side > where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on > the another, left side. Could that 15cm->40cm (~3x) make such decre- > ase in the battery life(s)? > Also one other thought. Are your laptop

[opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

pelibali wrote: > In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side > where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on > the another, left side. Could that 15cm->40cm (~3x) make such decre- > ase in the battery life(s)? > That is the only thing that makes sense.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-13 at 14:25 +0100, pelibali wrote: > but maybe > the mouse background is also an important point. e.g. I use a pretty > white and almost flat plate now, where sometimes I see my pointer > shaking, without even touching the mouse.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

pelibali wrote: 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work. The system is SUSE 9.1... my daughter stopped using such mice for that reason (and always on windows :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.sh

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2 (SOLVED)

Mandag 12 marts 2007 02:45 skrev John Andersen: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > Extracted the SP23..exe file using windows. Copied all files to a stick. > > Back to SuSE, copied from the stick into a temp dir. > > Ran "/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcml5.sys". T

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2 (SOLVED)

On Sunday 11 March 2007, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Extracted the SP23..exe file using windows. Copied all files to a stick. > Back to SuSE, copied from the stick into a temp dir. > Ran "/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcml5.sys". This extracted > and copied the needed -fw files to /li

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2

On Sunday 11 March 2007 8:01:28 am Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > I made a blunder. Sometime ago I promissed myself and the world that I > would NEVER buy or recommend HP laptops EVER more for their lousy support > of all Linux. > > I broke that rule 2 days ago, a friend of mine bought and brougt me a

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2

On 3/11/07, John Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fine, except the f"! $@@++# wireless, being a Broadcom4318. > > On the net there are various instructions as to how-to go on about this. I > fell however, that they are somewhat outdated, now that we the networkmanager > and all in SuSE10.2 > >

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2

fine, except the f"! $@@++# wireless, being a Broadcom4318. On the net there are various instructions as to how-to go on about this. I fell however, that they are somewhat outdated, now that we the networkmanager and all in SuSE10.2 Can anyone please direct me to a how-to or something to help me

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2 (SOLVED)

Søndag 11 marts 2007 13:01 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: > I made a blunder. Sometime ago I promissed myself and the world that I > would NEVER buy or recommend HP laptops EVER more for their lousy support > of all Linux. > [..] Oops, just came across some old notes. Problem solved. If others want to k

[opensuse] Wireless Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) on SUSE10.2

I made a blunder. Sometime ago I promissed myself and the world that I would NEVER buy or recommend HP laptops EVER more for their lousy support of all Linux. I broke that rule 2 days ago, a friend of mine bought and brougt me a HP Pavilion dv5000 wanting a plain fresh fine SuSE10.2 onto it. I

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

Koenraad Lelong schreef: Russell Jones schreef: You could look at kismet http://www.kismetwireless.net/ , wellenreiter http://sourceforge.net/projects/wellenreiter/ and if you're feeling flush, wi-spy http://www.metageek.net/ ... Thanks for all suggestions. Since I think I could use that wi-

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

John Pierce has posted: " The problem I found after quite some snooping is that it is on the pci express bus and not the standard bus. The developers are continuing to work on it but they haven't got there yet." If the OPs machine also has the chipset on the express bus it could be the same pro

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use "ndiswrapper" and hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at all, but the other approach which is "bcm43xx-fwcutter" workd at first, but it s

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

John Andersen wrote: John Pierce has posted: " The problem I found after quite some snooping is that it is on the pci express bus and not the standard bus. The developers are continuing to work on it but they haven't got there yet." If the OPs machine also has the chipset on the express bus it

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card [SOLVED]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:22 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use "ndiswrapper" and > > hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at > > all, but the other approach which is

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: > It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use "ndiswrapper" and > hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at > all, but the other approach which is "bcm43xx-fwcutter" workd at first, > but it stopped after a whil

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

On Thursday 15 February 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:23 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:59 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > >> Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Broadcom support

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

On Thursday 15 February 2007, John Pierce wrote: > I agree, I have to use the ndiswrapper and windows driver to get mine to > work. So there's the answer then, back to ndiswrapper for a while. -- _ John Andersen pgpHoU8WrHKZT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

Sunny wrote: On 2/15/07, Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran hwinfo --wlan and the result is: 12: PCI 202.0: 0200 Ethernet controller Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" Try using these instructions:

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

On 2/15/07, Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran hwinfo --wlan and the result is: 12: PCI 202.0: 0200 Ethernet controller Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" Try using these instructions:

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

I've never gotten the kernel one to work. I think it is obsolete for what dell is shipping today. They seem to switch chipsets weekly. I have to use ndiswrapper on my dell 9400. It is not obsolete, the chipset in the inspiron 9400 E1705 if the broadcom 4311. The problem I found after quite

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