Come now, I buy SuSE's distributions in large part just to support a company I think is putting out a quality product. When her employees give such unhelpful responses it makes one far less likely to feel like doing so ever again. Obviously, in my case, merely plugging in the card and turning the computer on did not produce a wlan0 interface. I did mention in my e-mail that I've been running SuSE for over a year now. Here's info from my /var/log/messages for anyone who wants to make an honest effort at helping: http://www.rurnt.com/brian/varlogmsg.txt Michael Hasenstein wrote:
Hi,
My approach was simply to - turn on the machine - insert the card.
As a result I had a "wlan0" network device which I could configure like any other ethernet device.
Michael
Brian wrote:
Hi,
Just bought 8.2 and installed it on my laptop that used to run 8.0. (You can read my review thus far at my blog, http://www.rurnt.com/brian ) I've read several threads about getting the Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless card working and each seems to suggest a different approach, none of which has worked yet.
'carctl ident' gives me:
Socket 0: product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA" manfid: 0x0274, 0x1613 function: 6 (network)
I would like to get the card working with 128-bit Wep at home and be able to easily switch it to work on any open access point elsewhere. Is this the unattainable holy grail of wireless access on Linux?
Detailed directions for a sometimes dense user appreciated.
Brian