> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "chris (fool) mccraw" <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:52:35 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Installing a Cisco Valet wireless USB adapter > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 14:10, Mark Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, I ditched the Cisco Valet and ordered a D-Link DWA-160 wireless >> USB adaptor. Just received it from the UPS guy. According to the linux >> drivers page (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB), it >> should work for me using the ar9170 driver. Simply plugging it in >> accomplished nothing, so I don't know what to do now. > > well, we'll need some qualification on the "nothing". i'm assuming > you mean "the internet didn't magically start flowing into the > laptop", and if that's the case and you did nothing besides plug it > in, there are probably some steps to take before we even start > troubleshooting problems--it needs to get set up first!
Yes, that's what I meant. I plugged it in and waited to see if anything happened (like a "new USB device found" popup). Nothing that I could see changed. > but let's see if the system sees it. after you unplug and replug it > (waiting a minute or so between to be safe), and then run the command > 'dmesg' in a terminal and see if the last few lines talk about finding > a device and using the ar9170 driver. you might go so far as to post > the related lines here for our edification. Here are the final few lines of the dmesg result: [18550.008055] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [18550.187656] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=07d1, idProduct=3a09 [18550.187686] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 [18550.187701] usb 1-3: Product: 11n adapter [18550.187711] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: ATHER [18550.187721] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 12345 [18550.188092] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > > if you see some mention of that driver without anything terrifying > (like a kernel panic), then we can go on to the next step: > > it's been awhile since i ran suse, but it looks from a cursory google > as though 11.3 (i know, you're on 11.2) uses network manager, so i > guess that'd be a good place to start. if there isn't a little > network icon somewhere in one of your panels (the bars at the > top/bottom/sides that also probably have a clock and other little > things in them), you might try just running nm-connection-editor from > the command line. it's pretty intuitive. When I tried nm-connection-editor I got the following response: ** (nm-connection-editor:8105): WARNING **: Icon nm-device-wired missing: Icon 'nm-device-wired' not present in theme ** (nm-connection-editor:8105): WARNING **: Failed to initialize the UI, exiting... > if the wireless tab is empty, you might still have to use yast (suse's > old system config tool) to tell the OS to make the device available to > network manager and company. i think you actually want to run yast2, > and there should be a networking tab in there that you can poke around > in. The networking tab in Yast2 has a long list of programs I could install, but none that leap out at me as the one I need. Any suggestions? > if that isn't fruitful, perhaps there is some documentation you could > refer to? i googled quickly for 'add network device opensuse' and > didn't see anything obvious (that wasn't written in 1999), but i bet > there are docs installed even on your system that address how to do > this so people who don't run your OS aren't trying to guess so much =) > > luck++; Thanks. I'll look around for some documentation. >> According to the page for the driver, it should be included in my >> distribution already (Linux 2.6.31.14-0.4-default i68). Is that right? > > it's impossible to tell from just that number. a kernel can be > compiled with or without support for many things. it seems likely > support is already there, though. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
