[BozemanLUG] User looking for wifi help with OpenSUSE 11.2 on Toshiba Satelite L505 laptop

[Scott Dowdle]

Gary,

To find out what it is you should be able to do the following:

lspci | grep -i net

If nothing shows up, just run lspci without grep and look at the list and see if anything appears to be it.

----- Original Message -----
> So far, I'd say it is a d**m good start . . .
> 
> I'm just used to YAST for doing all my sys maintenance, and it doesn't
> come up with anything for wifi cards on my machine. Maybe it is that
> Realtek has put their adapter in a non-standard place that YAST
> doesn't look for sys config.
> 
> I'll keep you all posted.
> 
> Gary Hildebrand
> Bozeman MT
> SuSE 11.2
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:21 AM, R. Potter < rpotter at zoncko.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I did a little research tonight and was having a very hard time
> finding out
> what brand the wireless adapter was. Toshiba never wanted to identify
> it. I did however take a look at www.linux-laptop.net and found some
> info that
> "might" be helpful. I found an entry from someone who purchased an
> L500 (the L505 is part of the series). On theirs they indicated it
> came with a
> Realtek Wireless adapter and that it was not an option. Further down
> in the
> post they had a write up on what to do to get the wireless adapter
> working. But, this user was installing/running Ubuntu. However, I am
> hoping there
> may be enough info here to help resolve this issue. I do not know if
> the L505 came with a Realtek but I would think the odds are decent
> that it did.
> The write up makes it sound like Realtek offers a linux driver.
> 
> Anyhow, hope it helps.
> 
> http://homeport.org/~bcordes/satellite-l500-install.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Scott Dowdle
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:15 AM
> To: BozemanLUG
> Subject: [BozemanLUG] User looking for wifi help with OpenSUSE 11.2 on
> Toshiba Satelite L505 laptop
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Gary Hildebrand stopped by my office today looking for help getting
> wireless working on his Toshiba L505 laptop. I'm not sure of the make
> of the wifi
> card yet but I expect him to join in on this thread RSN.
> 
> He is currently dual-booting to Windows for wifi... and using Linux
> when he
> has access to wired. He is a long time computer user.
> 
> TYL,
> -- Scott Dowdle
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Scott Dowdle
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