If you ever get your wireless setup to work let me know how you did it please? I've been struggling with getting it setup with or without Wep but no success as yet under SuSE 8/8.1... Dre -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Sanford [mailto:rsanford@telusplanet.net] Sent: 06 December 2002 15:18 To: SuSE Mail List Subject: [SLE] Wireless to connect SuSE laptop with router A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE. I intend to connect my laptop to a DSL/Cable router with a wireless connection. The laptop has SuSE 8.0 installed, though I do have a copy of 8.1 sitting here waiting to be used. Using the built-in NIC I can connect the laptop to the internet, however, I want to use wireless for the laptop. A Google search shows that 8.1 is supposed to have lots of extra ability regarding wireless (OK), but also shows a lot of people saying they can not get various brand name PCMCIA cards to work. The SuSE database has information regarding a wireless setup, but does not give brand names known to work. Locally D-Link and Linksys is readily available. From the internet, almost anything is available. Considering that a wireless access point cost as much or more than a new DSL/Cable wireless 4-port router, I will probably buy a new router to match the PCMCIA wireless card. What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2. Thanks for any recommendations. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:18, Ralph Sanford wrote:

A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE.

What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2.

Ralph, I have a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card and a Netgear ME102 base station. you need a PC to initially configure the access point through its USB interface although once it has an IP address there are some Perl scrips available to configure it from Linux using SNMP. The PCMCIA card worked first time in my Dell Latitude laptop, although I did find that it would sometimes lose connection with the base station and I would need to stop and start the network card to re-connect. I corrected this by downloading and installing the latest Orinoco driver, this compiled and installed in seconds since then I have had no problems. Even before upgrading the Orinoco driver I was able to configure WEP which again worked first time. Beware of D-Link cards, I understand from other messages on the list that they have changed the chipset and there is no Linux driver available. -- David Bottrill