[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[steve]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> Do "lspci" and see what the chipset is for the wireless adapter ,

I already mentioned that - it's an Intel/PRO Wireless 2200BG (lspci
confirms that).

> then go to
> "ndiswrapper" website and see if it is listed there , chances are it is .

Yeah - 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.

The SONY website is a mess.  They don't even recognise the model number
of my son's laptop in any of their dropdown menues - so I had to lie
about the model number even to send them an email!

> 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 .

As with most modern Laptops - it doesn't come with any kind of CD at
all.  If this is going to work, I'll have to find the driver on the
WinXP partition.  Since I know nothing about Windows, I wouldn't
know where to start looking, nor yet recognise the file if I found it.

> 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 .

I don't see a 'wal0' or anything like that.



> 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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