I use ndiswrapper with XP drivers to drive a Dell 1350 card on my Dell C640. I had a tremendous amount of fun getting what I wanted, which is similar to how XP (sorry) works with wireless NIC's. kwifimanager - could not get to work; tried wpasupplicant (does this even handle WEP?); tried waproamd and told me this was depricated - use wpasupplicant; discovered wireless assistant and thought this would be cool, but it always associated successfully and I never got an ip address (don't want static ip); and finally, after discovering wifi-radar I also found out why nothing else worked. For some reason my card does not need "iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever" first, all I had to do (at home or at work or wherever) was "iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxx...." and walaa, picked up the SSID (broadcasted), associated, and picked up the ip. So, after editing the wifi-radar script, I run it from boot.local (on SuSE) as a daemon and now I got roaming, better than XP (ooops, I did it again). I have to figure out why I do not need to plug in the SSID first as all these apps want to do because I wouldn't mind checking out wireless assistant. Possibly good for hidden SSID's would this method be good? If any of you guru's has a clue, please let me know. I hope this bit of info helps you in your venture. http://www.bitbuilder.com/wifi_radar -carl On Wednesday 18 May 2005 15:09, KBB0927@cs.com wrote:

To answer my own mail, go to www.kde.org, click on kde apps, click on network tools and you should find wireless assistant v.0.3.9 which will allow: detection, rescan, device id, and configuration of a wireless device.

Keith

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Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Suse 9.3 Wireless Tool Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:05:47 -0400 From: KBB0927 To: eddie.howson@dsl.pipex.com

Also, search KDE apps on www.kde.org.  I think about 1-2 mons ago, there was an app that scanned for wifi and allowed connection. I am at work, but if you have not found an answer by tonight, I will try and get back to you later.

-- Keith

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On Wednesday 18 May 2005 15:13, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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On Wednesday 18 May 2005 9:53 am, antonio-bravo(abs) wrote:

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Ken Kapptie wrote:

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I have been a little frustrated with my laptop running XP and Suse 9.3. XP of course sees and uses the Orinoco device on my SRX99 Sony perfect. I had the wireless working briefly on the Suse side but now it is now. Does anyone know of a good utility to install to at least see what available wireless networks are available?

you can try kwifimanager (it has an scan option) or  iwlist wlan0 scanning wlan0 or the name of the wifi adapter.

Kwifimanager will scan, yes, but it's deficient in that you can't select an available network.

You could also try netapplet.

Eddie

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