My brother has been given a Dell Inspiron laptop on which he has installed SUSE 10. He has 2 USB wireless adapters both of which are recognised by SUSE but he cannot get access to either his local network or the Internet.
The laptop does gets an IP address from the wireless router via DHCP and he can traceroute to the router and his desktop. He cannot ping either the router or his desktop - there are no replies. He can, however, ping the laptop from his desktop and get replies. He cannot connect to any sites on the network using a browser.
The router address is given as the default gateway on the laptop for wlan0 which is the wireless interface. SUSE is also using Network Manager to run things and complains about commands such as ifup or ifdown and ignores them.
Configuration files on SUSE are not where I'd expect to see them on Debian so I'm at a bit of a loss and I've run out of ideas.
Barry
It might, not might not, help but I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 desktop onto my laptop (maybe there should be a laptop version??? :) and had problems with my Atheros WiFi chipset. I have had to modify the rc.local with "ifdown ath0" and then "ifup ath0". I did have various problems as the iwconfig and ifconfig were doing one thing and the GUI tools were trying another.
This might be part of the problem he has?
"iwconfig ath0" shows the wireless info, and before the above, I had a different channel each time I ran the command. This means that the wifi is searching for an AP to associate to. I had the GUI configured but it would not see get an IP. If I put in a static then I could not ping off the laptop. I had to use the command line to get mine working.
Regards
Keith
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