Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Weaver
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

2008-01-03 Thread Carlos F. Lange
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

2008-01-02 Thread Rodney Baker
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

2008-01-02 Thread Richard Atcheson
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

2008-01-02 Thread Carlos F. Lange
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

2008-01-02 Thread GR
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

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Setup

2007-04-24 Thread Jan Tiggy
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

2007-04-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
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

2007-04-24 Thread Phil Savoie
[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

2007-04-23 Thread clarkt
> [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

2007-04-23 Thread Phil Savoie
[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

2007-04-23 Thread clarkt
> 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

2007-04-23 Thread Phil Savoie
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

2007-04-23 Thread clarkt
> 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

2007-04-23 Thread Phil Savoie
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

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-02-26 Thread Koenraad Lelong
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 setup [OT]

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Anderson
Patrick Kirsch wrote: Hey Bill, I personally miss the PCMCIA cards that allowed the antenna to be vertically polarized. To overcome this shortcoming, I wrap the cardboard core of a toilet paper role with tinfoil, and set stand it next to the Cool idea, do you have a picture of that, bec

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Kirsch
Hey Bill, > I personally miss the PCMCIA cards that allowed the antenna to be > vertically polarized. To overcome this shortcoming, I wrap the cardboard > core of a toilet paper role with tinfoil, and set stand it next to the Cool idea, do you have a picture of that, because I'm not sure if i did u

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-24 Thread Koenraad Lelong
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-spy on other occasions I'm

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 23 2007 10:35 am, Russell Jones wrote: > 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/ 'Can get Kismet via a smart update. ;) Fred -- MickyS

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-24 Thread Bill Anderson
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Koenraad Lelong wrote: Thanks for those suggestions, but besides some cell-phones (not near laptor or accesspoint) we don't have any wireless (radio) devices, and the microwave oven is meters away and inactive at most of the times of my tests. I'll look at the burst

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Joseph Loo
Koenraad Lelong wrote: > Patrick Kirsch schreef: >> Hey, So, has anyone of you some hints what to try next to get connected ? P.S. as far as I know there are no other transmitters in that band (2.4GHz ?) at home. >>> Do you have a cordless phone? >>> >>> A lot of them are in that ban

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Koenraad Lelong wrote: > > Thanks for those suggestions, but besides some cell-phones (not near > laptor or accesspoint) we don't have any wireless (radio) devices, and > the microwave oven is meters away and inactive at most of the times of > my tests. > I'll look at the burst rate and give it a t

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Russell Jones
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/ Russell Jones Koenraad Lelong wrote: Sorry for the off-topic post, but I don't know where to ask, so any pointers a

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread James Knott
Koenraad Lelong wrote: Sorry for the off-topic post, but I don't know where to ask, so any pointers are welcome. At home I'm trying to set up a wireless accesspoint (connected to a Suse sever, that's why I ask here ;-) ). If the accesspoint is placed inside the house it's impossible to get acce

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Patrick Kirsch schreef: Hey, So, has anyone of you some hints what to try next to get connected ? P.S. as far as I know there are no other transmitters in that band (2.4GHz ?) at home. Do you have a cordless phone? A lot of them are in that band and will interfere. We had to buy a new cordless

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Patrick Kirsch
Hey, >> So, has anyone of you some hints what to try next to get connected ? >> P.S. as far as I know there are no other transmitters in that band >> (2.4GHz ?) at home. > Do you have a cordless phone? > > A lot of them are in that band and will interfere. We had to buy a new > cordless in a highe

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Koenraad Lelong wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I don't know where to ask, so any > pointers are welcome. > At home I'm trying to set up a wireless accesspoint (connected to a > Suse sever, that's why I ask here ;-) ). If the accesspoint is placed > inside the house it's impossible to ge

[opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-01-23 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I don't know where to ask, so any pointers are welcome. At home I'm trying to set up a wireless accesspoint (connected to a Suse sever, that's why I ask here ;-) ). If the accesspoint is placed inside the house it's impossible to get access to it. I tried with t