RE: [SLE] My experience with SUSE 10.0 - "Gold" code. - wireless
-----Original Message----- From: Mike McMullin [mailto:mwmcmlln@mnsi.net] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:03 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] My experience with SUSE 10.0 - "Gold" code.
I'm not sure about the game end of that, but definitely the wireless end. I had a chat with one of the managers at our local Best Buy store, and he knocked Linux Laptops as being too difficult to get setup and running. He's probably right about that. I'm still tinkering with my son's laptop, and and known good pcmcia wireless card. One thing that we could use is a simple straight forward step be step How-To on how to get a card up and running from either a native module or ndiswrapper point. If such an animal had hints of checking your configs without having a known wireless base on hand I'd greatly appreciate it.
Mike
I have the netgear WG511T and it worked flawlessly in 9.3 and 10.0, the installer detected it and set it to DHCP and I told it what the wep key was and I was off and running, the same goes for my built in national semiconductor wireless b card that came built into my hp laptop. There was no installing drivers or messing with ndiswrapper, it just worked, that is my entire reason for using suse, its something that no other distro comes close to, IMHO. The installer did everything for me. I doubt that I am just "lucky" I would imagine there are other like me ;-) My $.02 Nick
On Monday 24 October 2005 4:22 pm, Nick Smith wrote:
I have the netgear WG511T and it worked flawlessly in 9.3 and 10.0, the installer detected it and set it to DHCP and I told it what the wep key was and I was off and running, the same goes for my built in national semiconductor wireless b card that came built into my hp laptop. There was no installing drivers or messing with ndiswrapper, it just worked, that is my entire reason for using suse, its something that no other distro comes close to, IMHO. The installer did everything for me. I doubt that I am just "lucky" I would imagine there are other like me ;-)
Don't we wish. :) NO.....there's way too many laptops with chipsets not supported. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:17 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Monday 24 October 2005 4:22 pm, Nick Smith wrote:
I have the netgear WG511T and it worked flawlessly in 9.3 and 10.0, the installer detected it and set it to DHCP and I told it what the wep key was and I was off and running, the same goes for my built in national semiconductor wireless b card that came built into my hp laptop. There was no installing drivers or messing with ndiswrapper, it just worked, that is my entire reason for using suse, its something that no other distro comes close to, IMHO. The installer did everything for me. I doubt that I am just "lucky" I would imagine there are other like me ;-)
Don't we wish. :) NO.....there's way too many laptops with chipsets not supported.
Better we had a list of cards which did work and the chipsets if known for those usb wireless. I wonder when Suse will start making such a list. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
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Carl William Spitzer IV
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Fred A. Miller
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Nick Smith