Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2837 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:30 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Linux, but not quite a total novice.  I've set up a 
> little Linux machine for my wife, using ndiswrapper to install a LinkSys 
> wireless NIC.  I had very little trouble with that, and her machine 
> connects to our network without a problem.
> 
> However, trying to do the same for my Toshiba Satellite P-35 laptop has 
> turned out to be quite an adventure.  Although ndiswrapper confirms that 
> the driver has been installed correctly, and that the right hardware is 
> present, I haven't been able to connect to our WAP at all.  The 
> NetworkManager icon (SuSE 10.2) just continues saying "no connection."
> 
> If it's simply impossible to use ndiswrapper with this Atheros wireless 
> card, it would save me a lot of trouble to know that.  On the other 
> hand, if anyone here has actually gotten one of these set up and 
> working, I'd sure like to have a chat with you!

  IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi.  Go the the opensuse site
and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros.  There is adequate info there to
allow you to get it up and running under 10.2.

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