Linux and wireless

[Church of Noise]

Just installed Linux, SuSe 10.0, and I've got everything working fine except the wireless... I'm using a US Robotics USB device to connect to the US robotics wireless router, but SuSe doesn't seem to find my device so I can't connect to the internet using Linux.
Can anyone help me out please?

Thanks in advance!

Alex

[zaktoo]

Is your usb working? Can you paste the contents of the command

lsmod

typed in a root terminal please? That will be a help for a start.

Also, please copy 'n paste the output of

lsusb

as above...

Thanks

Ciao

Zak

[Church of Noise]

Zak,

here is the output that lsmod generated:

Module Size Used by
bluetooth 45700 0
nls_iso8859_1 4096 0
nls_cp437 5760 0
hfsplus 75140 0
vfat 12800 0
fat 49692 1 vfat
subfs 7552 2
sg 35744 0
sd_mod 18576 0
speedstep_lib 4228 0
freq_table 4612 0
r128 45824 1
drm 61844 2 r128
ipv6 242752 10
usb_storage 72512 0
scsi_mod 131304 3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
usbhid 43616 0
ide_cd 39684 0
cdrom 36896 1 ide_cd
snd_pcm_oss 59168 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 9760 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 8064 0
snd_emux_synth 36992 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6784 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_event 6784 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul 7040 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq 51984 5
snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul
button 7056 0
battery 10244 0
ac 5252 0
edd 9824 0
i2c_viapro 8080 0
ehci_hcd 32136 0
via686a 19096 0
i2c_sensor 3584 1 via686a
i2c_core 20368 3 i2c_viapro,via686a,i2c_sensor
snd_emu10k1 111012 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_util_mem 4992 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8992 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_via82xx 28096 1
snd_ac97_codec 90876 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
emu10k1_gp 3584 0
ohci_hcd 20228 0
snd_pcm 93064 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 24452 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10632 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_via82xx
gameport 14600 3 snd_via82xx,emu10k1_gp
snd_rawmidi 24864 4 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
uhci_hcd 32016 0
snd_seq_device 8588 6
snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
usbcore 112640 6 usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
snd 60420 23
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi
,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep,snd_vi
a82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9184 1 snd
via_agp 9472 1
agpgart 33096 2 drm,via_agp
generic 4484 0 [permanent]
pci_hotplug 26164 0
parport_pc 38980 1
lp 11460 0
parport 33864 2 parport_pc,lp
nls_utf8 2048 1
ntfs 182288 1
dm_mod 54972 0
reiserfs 250480 1
fan 4996 0
thermal 14472 0
processor 24252 1 thermal
via82cxxx 13212 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 17152 4
ide_core 122380 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,generic,via82cxxx,ide_disk

The command lsusb didn't work, but when I checked my hardware by connection, it was shown that SuSe 'saw' a 802.11 b/g wireless network adapter (or something like that)...

[zaktoo]

Church of Noise said:

Zak, here is the output that lsmod generated: [snip] The command lsusb didn't work, but when I checked my hardware by connection, it was shown that SuSe 'saw' a 802.11 b/g wireless network adapter (or something like that)...

Hmm. I've never touched a usb network device under Linux before, but your USB stuff seems to be in order. Do you have any idea what module that usb device would be? Is it even a supported device?

Ciao

Zak

[Bodo]

Does the device show up in Yast/network devices? Try configuring it to start up as a hotplug-device somewhere in the advanced settings.

[Church of Noise]

It's a US Robotics 5416 (if I recall correctly), and it seems to show up in YaST. I'll try the hotplug thing later on.

Thanks!

Another question, if I may: how can I change the root password? I've been looking all over and can't seem to find a place to do so, I can only change passwords from users (actually, user: me ). Now, it even asks me for the password when shutting down but oddly, for each letter I type, two asterisks appear and I can't seem to get the password right...

Yes, I'm definitely a Linux newbie...

[aldi]

Normally it's 'passwd root' at a command prompt, of course you have have rights to do this which I'm not sure is a problem for you since you were able to lsmod earlier? If you don't have any root access the procedure is usually to access the drive from another system and edit the /etc/shadow file directly I beleive.

Sorry I cant really help with the wireless biz since I havent tried wireless on linux yet and I dont use suse but is anything listed for the wireless adapter if you do an 'ifconfig -a' ?

[shocker-z]

If you logon as another user just open shell up and type 'su' enter root password type 'passwd' and then follow the prompts.. (this is if the above 'passwd root' doesn't work