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Re: [SLE] Wireless PCMCIA config on Suse 10.0 with a Belkin 54g f5d7011
- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:49:47 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511131248.06722.abrahams@xxxxxxx>
On Sunday 13 November 2005 8:42 am, Philip Mark Donaghy wrote:
> My wireless card was not detected during the suse 10.0 install. Since most
> of the Internet forums address earlier versions of suse and other belkin
> cards, I thought I would take it on here.
>
> I read some interesting stuff about pcmcia card functionality and the new
> kernel support for hot plug in /usr/share/doc/packages
> /pcmciautils/README.SUSE
> Most of the documentation on the net refers to ndiswrapper solutions. I
> tried to add it manually using Yast with the wireless, bus-pcmcia, and
> pcmcia options. But that didn't work.
I had the same problem and it took me quite a while to solve it, though a
google search helped. I don't remember exactly what I did, but the key was
downloading the ***Windows*** driver from the card's manufacturer and then
plugging it into ndiswrapper. I also was using "modprobe ndiswrapper" to
install it, which worked fine but had to be done for each session.
Eventually I got around that one too, though again, I don't remember just
what I did. Perhaps someone else here can provide more details.
Another problem I still have -- which may or may not affect you -- is that the
wireless card and the hard drive use the same IRQ. That produces many
anomalies (the SuSE installer couldn't find the hard drive, for instance),
which I can get around by unplugging and plugging in the card. I understand
that the solution relies on rejiggering the IRQs, but the simplified BIOS in
my laptop provides no IRQ controls and I haven't yet figured out how to do
something useful from within Linux (probably by loading the right magic at
the boot prompt).
Paul
> My wireless card was not detected during the suse 10.0 install. Since most
> of the Internet forums address earlier versions of suse and other belkin
> cards, I thought I would take it on here.
>
> I read some interesting stuff about pcmcia card functionality and the new
> kernel support for hot plug in /usr/share/doc/packages
> /pcmciautils/README.SUSE
> Most of the documentation on the net refers to ndiswrapper solutions. I
> tried to add it manually using Yast with the wireless, bus-pcmcia, and
> pcmcia options. But that didn't work.
I had the same problem and it took me quite a while to solve it, though a
google search helped. I don't remember exactly what I did, but the key was
downloading the ***Windows*** driver from the card's manufacturer and then
plugging it into ndiswrapper. I also was using "modprobe ndiswrapper" to
install it, which worked fine but had to be done for each session.
Eventually I got around that one too, though again, I don't remember just
what I did. Perhaps someone else here can provide more details.
Another problem I still have -- which may or may not affect you -- is that the
wireless card and the hard drive use the same IRQ. That produces many
anomalies (the SuSE installer couldn't find the hard drive, for instance),
which I can get around by unplugging and plugging in the card. I understand
that the solution relies on rejiggering the IRQs, but the simplified BIOS in
my laptop provides no IRQ controls and I haven't yet figured out how to do
something useful from within Linux (probably by loading the right magic at
the boot prompt).
Paul
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