Wifi on SuSE 10.1

[Carl Parrish]

Ben Francom wrote:
> On 9/20/06, *Carl Parrish* <lists at pcl-consulting.com
> <mailto:lists at pcl-consulting.com>> wrote:
>
>     Okay I just installed SuSE 10.1 on a friends Gateway laptop.
>     Everything
>     more or less went smooth except I can't get his wireless card working.
>     This is a dual boot laptop on the MS side everything is okay and
>     when I
>     use an ethernet cable everything is all right but when I try going
>     wireless its dead. YaST says its a Gateway 2000 88E8038 PCI-E Fast
>     Ethernet Controller. I don't know if he has a seperate wireless
>     controller or not. but like I said it works in MS and this is all
>     that
>     YaST sees. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> I had a hard time getting things working with a wired connection.  I
> had to use the "traditional" method with "ifup."  But I was able to
> get the wireless working with the Network Manager at a hotel the other
> day.
> Have you tried both ways in YAST?
>
>
Thanks for the replay Ben. What I've found so far. There are apparently
two cards one for wired and another for wireless. The wireless is a
Broadcom BCM 4310 UART. The hardware poll says the device name is sit0
but when I type ifup sit0 it says there is no configuration file for
sit0. I think he's going to have to bring it back after I've had some
time to study it. Thanks everyone.