Thank you for your helpful response! I have two questions: On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 09:04, Greg Franks wrote:
"Dennis" == Dennis J Tuchler
writes: Dennis> I would be thankful for answers to some questions: about Dennis> wireless cards 1) Re: Wireless Ethernet Cards for Dennis> Desktops.
Dennis> How does one get Linux to recognize an ethernet card Dennis> (e.g. a wireless card) that is not on the list of Dennis> supported cards shown by YAST2?
Don't use YAST2 -- edit everthing manually. This can be a pain. I had trouble with the routing tables.
Dennis> 2) Re: Installing a PCMCIA card onto a Desktop.
Linksys makes a PCI card (WMP11) which doesn't rely on PCMCIA at all. This may be a better route.
The only tricky part of the installation I found was building the module for the kernel. This too was relatively painless as Suse came with the the correct config file for my kernel.
How do you build the module? Must you recompile the kernel?
Dennis> I understand that one can install a wireless PCMCIA Dennis> ethernet card in a desktop with the appropriate PCI card. Dennis> Is there any problem with Linux's recognizing the card Dennis> under these circumstances?
The Linksys PCI card works fine. (modulo WEP encryption, which I haven't tried yet...)
Do you mean PCMCIA or is it aPCMCIA adapter? Thanks again dennis tuchler