With respect to wlan and internet access I have had some success
with OS10.2 and so have
after a succession of DVD updating a remnant ifcfg-wlan0, now
evidently not entirely compatible
to OS10.3beta2.
There has however been no success in booting up the wlan ( in Linux
) during the good halfyear
of switching my dualboot Fujitsu-Siemens desktop between WinXp and
any alpha or beta version of
OpenSuse 10.*. Rather while in XP I use the YAReg tool for looking
into the Reiser file system
to examine the crucial man and /etc/.. files from within cygwin, in
relative repose, thus able
to send this email.
Tia to those reading what has become much too long / Tom
My observations are marked : Comment
After booting the state of 10.3 beta2 is examined:
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:05:6C:7A:A7
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:820 (820.0 b) TX bytes:820 (820.0 b)
Comment: No wlan is discovered. In my brick house the desktop is >
10m for radio waves, 25m
cable distance from the Dell Wireless 2350 Broadband
Router. I have no cable connection.
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ndiswrapper -l
wlanuig : driver installed
device (0BF8:1007) present
Comment: Card: Fujitsu-Siemens Connect2Air E-5400 USB
Chipset: Intersil-Frisbee + Netchip
usbid: 0bf8:1007 Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:05:61:02:61
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Comment: why was that accepted ?
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Comment: Security mode:restricted. why ?
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless key open
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless" Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4B:E2:74:E8
Bit Rate=6 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security
mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:25/100 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Comment: Finally, ssid, AP and Security mode:open
And now something odd:
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifdown wlan0
wlan0
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifup wlan0
wlan0
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0... . IP/Netmask: 192.168.2.2 /
255.255.255.0 ('Axehult-Fujitsu')
Error while executing:
Command 'ip route replace to 213.163.128.185/24 via 192.168.2.1 dev
wlan0' returned:
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Configuration line: 213.163.128.185 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0
Error while executing:
Command 'ip route replace to 213.142.0.242/24 via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0'
returned:
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Configuration line: 213.142.0.242 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless" Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4B:E2:74:E8
Bit Rate=6 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:29/100 Signal level:-77 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Comment: Security mode:restricted. why ?
Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ping gateway
PING default-gateway (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from default-gateway (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.79 ms
64 bytes from default-gateway (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.73 ms
At this stage using an internet browser I can login to my router
192.168.2.1 but not reach
internet, a DNS problem I gather. I admit that I have been unable on
uncountable attempts to
use YAST's 'network card' initializer.
How tackle the DNS problem ?
ifcfg-wlan0
Description: Binary data
resolv.conf
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