As of yesterday I had success installing openSUSE 13.1 onto a Surface Pro 2. (http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...ro-2-Need-help!) I knew before even installing the OS that there would be issues with using wifi. I will try to include as much info as I can but bare with me, considering my knowledge of Linux is extremely limited.
My first goal is to gather info about the wireless device on the Surface Pro 2. The wireless card, chipset, drivers needed. This in itself has been a mission...
Second goal is to install whatever is needed to be able to use wifi after identifying what is missing in openSUSE (or what is not recognized??)
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...309432-Welcome http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...should-do-next I am trying to follow the guidelines of the above threads to provide useful information so that someone can help me. Unfortunately I am having trouble locating a lot of the info. In the second thread lwfinger says:
When I entered /sbin/lspci the results did not show a network controller. The first entry was:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0a0c (rev 0b)
Followed by the USB controller, communication controller, audio device, etc...
I have also tried to find anything regarding a wireless device through Yast. Yast -> Hardware ->Hardware Information...
So following deltaflyer44's list in http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...309432-Welcome I cannot provide info on 1-5. For 6) I am using openSUSE 13.1. Like before, 7) did not turn up anything about a network controller. And for 8) it is not a USB device.
As far as I can tell, both the Surface Pro 1 and the Surface Pro 2 use the Marvell AVASTAR 350N wireless chipset.
http://www.surfacegeeks.net/forums/i...e-pro-2-specs/
http://www.surfaceforums.net/forum/m...-chip-sp2.html
I guess the only useful information I have is:
Surface Pro 2 openSUSE 13.1
Marvell 350N chipset
Which isn't very helpful =/
(I apologize for the jumbled post, for some reason the formatting did not work....)
My first goal is to gather info about the wireless device on the Surface Pro 2. The wireless card, chipset, drivers needed. This in itself has been a mission...
Second goal is to install whatever is needed to be able to use wifi after identifying what is missing in openSUSE (or what is not recognized??)
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...309432-Welcome http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...should-do-next I am trying to follow the guidelines of the above threads to provide useful information so that someone can help me. Unfortunately I am having trouble locating a lot of the info. In the second thread lwfinger says:
Quote:
Originally Posted by lwfinger
(b) If it is a PCI device, you should enter the command '/sbin/lspci' in a terminal. The output will look like: 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2) .... snip ... 01:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12) 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0a0c (rev 0b)
Followed by the USB controller, communication controller, audio device, etc...
I have also tried to find anything regarding a wireless device through Yast. Yast -> Hardware ->Hardware Information...
So following deltaflyer44's list in http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...309432-Welcome I cannot provide info on 1-5. For 6) I am using openSUSE 13.1. Like before, 7) did not turn up anything about a network controller. And for 8) it is not a USB device.
As far as I can tell, both the Surface Pro 1 and the Surface Pro 2 use the Marvell AVASTAR 350N wireless chipset.
http://www.surfacegeeks.net/forums/i...e-pro-2-specs/
http://www.surfaceforums.net/forum/m...-chip-sp2.html
I guess the only useful information I have is:
Surface Pro 2 openSUSE 13.1
Marvell 350N chipset
Which isn't very helpful =/
(I apologize for the jumbled post, for some reason the formatting did not work....)