[Novalug] Help Needed

Varol Okan varokan@movingsatellites.com
Tue Jan 1 15:57:55 EST 2008


ndiswrapper is working fairly well by now but some years ago I had to
use another utility for $20 ( forgot the name though )

as root, type
> iwlist scan

do you see anything ?

next check
> lsmod | grep ndis

What does this tell you ?

Varol :)

Ken Kauffman wrote:
> Which model Lenovo?
> Which wireless is in it? (if it's Broadcomm and not Intel, you may
> need to use ndiswrapper)
> Sound should "just" work.  However, did you check the mixer levels?
>
> FWIW: Ubuntu worked great on mine (T61P) and detected everything
> except for the NVidia card (3D) correctly. 
>
> K
>
> On 1/1/08, *Dan Arico* <dan_arico@aricosystems.com
> <mailto:dan_arico@aricosystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     I need some help to avert a family crisis.
>
>     I got my daughter a Lenovo laptop for Christmas. I executed the
>     copy of Vista
>     on it and disposed of the body. Then I installed Open SUSE 10.3.
>
>     Everything works perfectly except:
>
>     Wireless
>     Sound
>
>     I have researched it and tried everything I could think of with no
>     luck. Can
>     someone help? I can bring it to you or you can work on it here.
>     Beer/pizza/whatever will be provided.
>
>     Help!
>
>     Dan Arico
>     Annandale, VA
>
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