SUSE 10.1 complete newbie

Creamy Goodness

finally took a step and installed suse 10.1 on my laptop (acer ferrari 4005).
i'm using the GNOME desktop

the installation went pretty well but i have a few problems.

1. when i go to applications >> system >> monitor >> processor it states my cpu speed is only 800mhz whereas my processor is actually 2ghz. i only installed the 32bit version of suse 10.1 as it was given to me by a mate but my cpu is 64-bit, would this hinder it to see the full 2ghz of the cpu?


2. i can't for the life of me figure out how to get my wireless card working i have a broadcom 80211.g wireless card and that's all i can figure out from googling around, but i can't find any linux drivers out there at all.


any help would be appreciated

niallb

Cremo wrote:

1. when i go to applications >> system >> monitor >> processor it states my cpu speed is only 800mhz whereas my processor is actually 2ghz.

2. i can't for the life of me figure out how to get my wireless card working i have a broadcom 80211.g wireless card and that's all i can figure out from googling around, but i can't find any linux drivers out there at all.

1. Try leaving this monitor open while actually doing something.
Your CPU is probably running at an idle speed.

2. Type "suse 10.1 broadcom wireless card" into Google.
The first three answers all got it to work.
Have you gone through what they have done?

Have you looked for ndiswrapper in yast ?
That's what you need.

NiallB

Khannie

niallb wrote:

Have you looked for ndiswrapper in yast ?
That's what you need.

x2

I did a new ubuntu installation over the weekend and had to use the source, so if you have any trouble with a pre-packaged version, just grab the latest stable source.

(not sure if this is relevant to suse, but if necessary disable the bcm43xx kernel module...use "lsmod | grep bcm" to see if it's loaded at boot time).

Creamy Goodness

niallb wrote:

1. Try leaving this monitor open while actually doing something.
Your CPU is probably running at an idle speed.

perfect, that was exactly what it was.

i still can't get my head around that ndiswrapper thing it's so confusing and them first three guides that google came up with were hard for me to understand and i bearly know Windows DOS commands let alone Terminal.

generalmiaow

it's really confusing at first, but I've used this guide for ndiswrapper on suse before and it worked, it wasn't too hard as long as you keep re-reading the documentation to make sure you're following it in the right order. Once the first part is done type "iwconfig" in the console and you should see the name of your card. If you post what difficulties you're having in the thread we can probably help.

Khannie

You can also try ndisgtk (this is a GUI frontend to ndiswrapper) after installing ndiswrapper. Sometimes it's useful....sometimes it's not.