[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[Gilbert Morrow]

Sorry that was "wlan" which is wireless lan , Terry seems to be on the right
track there , but like most things in Linux , long explanations and lots of
reading before it works .
I have a modern laptop and some do come with driver cds but then some don't
.
Sorry I don't do Windows either , I know that the info is there and could
find it very easily but don't do Windows .

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