I have a nice netbook Lenovo S10-2 with Intel Wifi/Mimax 5150 builtin adapter. When i started playing with it, I installed OpenSuSE 11.2 (among others, including even MacOS X!). The result was: ALMOST everything working out of the box, even KDE4 was nice! Except for the mentioned Intel 5150 card. Actually, wifi worked, but only unsecure version.
The following steps helped me to fix it:
1) in YaST (Start->Computer->Yast) start "Software Repositories", then "Add", "by URL", enter URL:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver%3a/wireless/11.2-update/
and some name for the repository. then "OK"
2) in YaST start "Software Manager" and look for "iwl-5150-ucode" package, and mark it for installation, Also, do all the software update by selecting menu "Package -> All Packages -> Update if newer version available", make sure that you have "kernel-firmware", "compat-wireless-experimental-kmp-...", "iflugd" and all "NetworkManager" packages selected, then click "Accept" to install .
3) reboot
4) make sure that your network settings are managed by "Network manager" and in KDE you have "Network Manager" started (usually, it should be like that by default).
5) In network manager applet menu (should be in system tray), select "enable wireless" menu. Soon, a list of available Wifi hotpots should appear right in the network-manager applet menu. Simply click on one, and enter WPA password when asked to. If not, go to "Connect to other network",and select a network from list, or click "New ad-hoc network" and search for appropriate SSID in there.
Good night and good luck.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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