Comments on: Wireless using W200 on openSUSE 10.3

By: bauderline

bauderline — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:33:32 +0000

Thanks a million for the above. It also works a treat for Fedora Core 10 on a Compaq Evo N800c.

By: lucidTipster

lucidTipster — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:03:33 +0000

Jay,

Please see the updated version of the howto that is more specific to openSUSE 11.0 Please check it out and provide me with your feedback

http://www.lucidtips.com/2008/09/06/wireless-using-w200-on-opensuse-110/

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:28:21 +0000

I just did a fresh install of openSuse 11. i also got an error message saying something about unknown symbols. but after i reboot it, the wireless light up. i configured the wifi card, still i couldnt connect to the internet. any ideas?

by the way, i think i know the solution to Jae’s problem. i attempted to do the same thing a week ago, and i got the same error message as Jae’s. it turns out that the module wasnt “maked” for the correct kernel version, perhaps. so try updating the kernel stuff from YAST, reboot, and install again.

By: lucidTipster

lucidTipster — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:23:04 +0000

Jae,

I upgraded my Evo N610c from OpenSUSE 10.3 to OpenSUSE 11.0 and the wireless card (w200) worked correctly. I am going now going to try a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.0 on the same Evo N610c and will let you know the findings.

By: Jae

Jae — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:39:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

I installed Suse 11 on my Evo N800c last weekend; Everything is fine but my wireless card(W200) is not working. I followed your tip but at the last step “sudo modprobe -v orinoco_usb” I got a FATAL error:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-0.1-default/weak-updates/orinoco_usb.ko FATAL: Error inserting orinoco_usb (/lib/modules/2.6.25.11-0.1-default/weak-updates/orinoco_usb.ko): Invalid module format

I tried another revision, say 1300, but didn’t work…what am I supposed to do? Thanks in advance.

By: lucidTipster

lucidTipster — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:42:06 +0000

Jay,

Sorry I have no experience with airmon-ng. Does the without airmon-ng?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:53:34 +0000

Thank you so much for this how-to! I had been trying for months, without luck until I got here! There’s only one problem left. When I use airmon-ng to start monitor mode for the wireless card, the whole system freezes. I think it’s a problem with the orinoco driver version, as described here: http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html perhaps this how-to downloaded v. 15? I tried installing v.13e but it returned errors. I have no idea how to solve this problem since I am very new to linux. Please help-it’s urgent! Thanks in advance! =]

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:21:19 +0000

I had to do the procedure from Øystein Olsen (http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/building.html) for preparing the kernel:

$ cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/
$ rm build
$ ln -s source build
$ cd build/
$ su
(root password)
$ make mrproper
$ make cloneconfig
$ make prepare-all

Important: You must change

make prepare-all

make prepare scripts

if you get an error similar to:

/bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory

By: mtcstle

mtcstle — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:44:39 +0000

By George, i think that did it. I set it to use ifup, under the global tab. as you suggested in your blog, pushed the Fn-F2 key, and DHCP went out and caught me an address. I already had everything else in place, the driver, the firmware. It just came right up, I’m using it now. I’ve still got quite a bit of testing to do before handing it over to my 12 year old, but this is very, very encouraging.