[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[Gilbert Morrow]

Do "lspci" and see what the chipset is for the wireless adapter , then go to
"ndiswrapper" website and see if it is listed there , chances are it is .
I have had great success with ndiswrapper in SuSe , 9.2,9.3,10.0GM.....etc.
If all else fails got to Sony's website and see if they list the driver for
the wireless there.
If you browse the cd (Windows XP Home Service Pack 2) that came with your
laptop I think you will find drivers (Driver Directory or Folder) there for
all the components on your laptop .
Although the wireless adapter is built in it works the same way a PCMCIA
does.
You should see in "ifconfig" when you get it right "waln" ,  "iwconfig" does
not show my adapter .



On 12/27/05, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
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