Michel Maria-Sube wrote:
Hello,
I'm working with Suse10.2 on a Acer Ferrari serie
laptop 64b furnished with a Broadcom BCM4318 and this
hardware fails to connect with a router for wireless
access. Once installed I have:
ifconfig -a
eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr
00:16:36:24:FC:51
UP BROADCAST 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 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interruption:233
eth1 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr
00:14:A4:3C:E2:52
BROADCAST 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 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0xc000
lo Lien encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
RX bytes:20033 (19.5 Kb) TX bytes:20033
(19.5 Kb)
To be connected I'm using ndiswrapper, doing:
ndiswrapper -i acer*/80211g-x64/WL*/bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 ...
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
then I'm doing:
modprobe ndiswrapper
No change occur on the list whem I'm typing again:
ifconfig -a
When I'm trying to set up eth0 or eth1, I have an
answer to say that both interfaces are managed by
knetworkmanager; but this utility himself is unable to
detect any wireless network!!
What can I do? Reinstall Suse without kNetwokManager?
Or create a new interface which is not managed by
kNetworkManager? But how to proceed??
Thank you in advance for sugestions
Regards
Michel
Michel - From the perspective of another user, (not a developer) I too
am using a laptop with a Broadcom chip and ndiswrapper. (also using
bcmw15.inf) I gave up on trying to use KNetworkManager. Never could get
it to do anything. Combined with the fact that KNetworkManager does not
get up an running until the desktop is active and I need my wifi up an
running during boot up (so I could automatically do things like set my
clock automatically, mount file systems, etc) made me go back to using
the "traditional" ifup and ifdown methods. You don't need to reinstall
SuSE either, if you chose to abandon KNetworkManager like I did, just
go in to Yast and select the traditional method for network setup and
that will get you there, disabling KNetworkManager in the process. The
downside of this is that I have to maintain a number of separate ifcfg
files in /etc/sysconfig/network for each of the networks I use. I have a
simple (higlyly customized) script that I wrote that allows me to swap
them with the ifcfg-wlan0 file as I need to, but you can do it manually
quite easily...
IMHO If Linux wants to ever become user friendly for novices, it
desperately needs something like Microsoft's network manager which can
automatically discover networks, remember how to connect to em, and do
so seamlessly. Maybe KNetworkManager will grow up someday and become
that tool for us.... (or maybe it has and if so perhaps some kind guru
will show us the way to the light... The KNetworkManager's GUI itself
and its documentation sure doesn't.
Marc..
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