[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[steve]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> Although SuSE installed the driver for the wireless you may need to still
> run something like "ndiswrapper" to get it to work correctly . I have a
> Compaq laptop that I use SuSE on and SuSE pickups the PCMCIA card when
> inserted but will not use it until I run ndiswrapper . Ndiswrapper uses the
> Windows .inf files from the hardware driver cd that came with your Sony.

Surfing around, I find contradictory advice about ndiswrapper - some
people reported success from enabling it - and others had to disable
it to get things to work.

However, either way, the Sony doesn't come with driver CD's.  The
Wifi gizmo is a part of the laptop - not a separate PCMCIA card or
anything.

I still have WinXP on the machine on a separate partition though,
I guess I could copy whatever is needed from there.  I know
*zip* about Windows though - I wouldn't know where to start
looking for a driver file.

> On 12/26/05, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to get wireless networking up and working on
>>my son's new VAIO laptop.  Everything works using WinXP
>>and my LinkSys Wireless-G router using DHCP - but I get
>>"Network Unreachable" under Linux.
>>
>>Here is the setup:
>>
>>Sony VAIO PCG-782L - running SuSE 9.3.
>>Wireless chip: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
>>
>>SuSE auto-detected the wireless chip, I configured
>>all of the network stuff (I believe) correctly - but
>>a 'ping' to any of my other computers just comes back
>>with "Network Unreachable".
>>
>>I can see the driver is installed ('lsmod' shows that
>>ipw2200 is installed and that 'firmware_class, ieee80211
>>and ieee80211_crypt depend on it).
>>
>>When I open the device description in the SuSE
>>Hardware Tool (aka suseplugger) it says;
>>
>>Status:
>>Available    Yes
>>Configured   No
>>
>>...as far as I can tell, I *have* configured it using
>>YaST - but perhaps that's not what it's talking about.
>>
>>Help!