OpenSuSE 11 -- Bluetooth/Wireless Help

<div><div dir="ltr">Hey Everyone!<br><br>I've got a Dell Laptop running OpenSuSE 11.&nbsp; The laptop is a Latitude D820 (running the Intel Core Duo) and running OpenSuSE 11 (32bit).<br><br>It's got both bluetooth and wireless, but I can't get either to work..<br><br><br>BLUETOOTH problem:<br>Bluetooth seems to load up fine and GNOME's bluetooth manager shows up (indicating that bluetooth works) and I can try and search for devices, but I can't connect to them..&nbsp; I can have a bluetooth device such as my blackberry Pearl SEND a file TO the computer, but not the other way around.&nbsp; Each time I try to connect to the phone it comes back saying that the host is down and that I need to select another viewer and try again.<br><br><br>WIRELESS problem:<br>Wireless doesn't seem to come up and work..&nbsp; iwconfig shows wlan0 as a network card, but if I try to do any operation on it (like search for available networks) it says the card is off.&nbsp; Also, from GNOME's network applet, I can select eth0 (for wired) networking, but under "wireless" there is not a network device that it recognizes as being able to use.<br><br>the output from lspci for this is:<br>0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)<br><br>I'm pretty sure I have to configure this device using ndiswrapper.&nbsp; I've followed a few tutorials on this subject and it didn't work...&nbsp; I'm going to try and download some new drivers later today and see if that works, but I also saw on a post that OpenSuSE 11 is considered "beta" for the most part and you should really use OpenSuSE 10.3 instead.&nbsp; That could have been an old post though..&nbsp; Has anyone else setup wireless on their OpenSuSE 11?<br><br><br>Thanks for any help you guys can send along my way!<br><br><br><br>Rob<br>
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A Look at Wine 1.1.5

(1) Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of
X, OpenGL, and Unix. (2) Wine is a software program that provides a
compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and
various Unix cousins.

If you haven't looked at Wine for a while, you will be surprised by
the improvements in just the last year. Clio Dunn will give a
presentation at our October 9th meeting on how Wine has progressed and
how you can take leverage its capabilities. We will also look at some
specific applications running under Wine. Feel free to come as early
as 7pm if you want to work on some specific issues with your Wine
installation.

The presentation will occur at the regular ALG meeting (7:30pm to
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Hardware configuration information

I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of systems. What I am looking for is a
tool/utility to probe and report the hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is
usable as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little information at data collection!).
Something in a bootable CD flavor?

Re: Hardware configuration information

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 10:48:46 am Jim Parkhurst wrote:
> I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of
> systems. What I am looking for is a tool/utility to probe and report the
> hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is
> usable as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little
> information at data collection!). Something in a bootable CD flavor?

Well, the obvious "dump to file" is 

cat /proc/* >file

You can certainly filter everything out of there!  You can probably whittle it 
down to half a dozen entries, though:

cd /proc
cat cpuinfo meminfo modules partitions ... >file

The /proc heirarchy is on all Linux systems, so you could just boot pretty 
much any rescue disk, Knoppix, or whatever, I would think.

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Re: Hardware configuration information

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:48:46 -0500
"Jim Parkhurst" <JPARKHUR@...> wrote:

> I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of systems. What I am looking for is a
tool/utility to probe and report the hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is
usable as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little information at data collection!).
Something in a bootable CD flavor?

I'd love to have something like this myself, please post it to this list if you find it elsewhere.  There are a
couple of tools I've found useful on Windows systems.  These aren't what you're looking for but may be of
limited use.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
http://www.gtopala.com/

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Re: Hardware configuration information

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Jim Parkhurst
<JPARKHUR@...> wrote:
> I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of systems. What I am looking for is a
tool/utility to probe and report the hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is
usable as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little information at data collection!).
Something in a bootable CD flavor?
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The System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org) is a small bootable CD
that includes several bootable floppy images on it; one of those
floppy images is the Aida32 tool.  Using this, you can create HTML,
XML, or CSV files containing all of the hardware information it finds.
 I suggest using a USB key, if possible, to store the files.
Otherwise a floppy disc, or mounting the local hard drive and writing
the files there.  You can even get on the LAN (if present) with SRCD
and push the files over the network.

If you can get network/shell access to each machine, thought, the
entire process could be scripted using the methods John Dierdorf
described, without a single reboot or leaving your office.

I recently performed a similar task for my company, but decided that
it was time to get hands-on with each and see how dusty each was
inside, what the hardware looked like, etc. , so I did a manual
inventory...  There's no substitute for direct contact.

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Re: Hardware configuration information

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:19:40 -0500
"Chris Lindbergh" <chrislindbergh@...> wrote:

> The System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org) is a small bootable CD
> that includes several bootable floppy images on it; one of those
> floppy images is the Aida32 tool.

Wow, cool Chris.  Thanks.  I thought Aida32 was a Windows app.  I keep finding more cool stuff that the System
Rescue CD is good for.  I guess I'm going to have to RTFM and put myself in the know.  I wonder if Aida32 can be
made to boot from a CD?   Guess I'll go find out.
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Re: Hardware configuration information

Bootable CD of some linus, run

dmidecode
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/partitions
cat /proc/meminfo

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:48:46AM -0500, Jim Parkhurst wrote:
> I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of systems. What I am looking for is a
tool/utility to probe and report the hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is
usable as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little information at data collection!).
Something in a bootable CD flavor?
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Re: Hardware configuration information

I haven't tried it but have been meaning to try out cfg2html,
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html.

cjs

On Wednesday, 9/24/08 10:48 AM, "Jim Parkhurst" <JPARKHUR@...>
wrote:

> I have a challenge to obtain the hardware and software configuration of
> systems. What I am looking for is a tool/utility to probe and report the
> hardware - cpu, memory, drives, controllers, etc. A "dump to file" is usable
> as I can filter the noise (better too much than too little information at data
> collection!). Something in a bootable CD flavor?
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