CMF wrote:

Hi all -

I'm running SuSE 8.0 Pro on my Compaq Armada M700. I recently changed my home network to a wireless router system, and I wanted to know if there were drivers for my Linksys PC Card wireless adapter. If there are, a pointer to the appropriate setup routine would also be appreciated.

Don't know about 8.0, but I first set up a Linksys on 8.1 and it was non-trivial. Here's a file I wrote to remind myself how to do it next time (note that I am using 40-bit WEP): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To set up wireless with a Prism-based PCMCIA card on SuSE 8.2: 1) Create a file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0. This makes up for the fact that YaST can't deal with wlan-ng (see http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wavelan.html, about halfway down the page). Here is an example file: BOOTPROTO='static' BROADCAST='192.168.1.255' DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK='yes' IPADDR='192.168.1.3' NETMASK='255.255.255.0' NETWORK='192.168.1.0' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='hotplug' UNIQUE='' WIRELESS='yes' WIRELESS_ESSID='MY_ESSID' WIRELESS_KEY='1234567890' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' 2) IN etc/wlan/wlan.conf, set your ESSID if necessary. 3) In /etc/wlan, copy wlancfg-DEFAULT to wlancfg-MY_ESSID and edit appropriately. If you are using WEP, set "dot11PrivacyInvoked=true" and "dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=" to your default key. Enter your keys in "dot11WEPDefaultKey0=" etc. Also make sure "IS_ADHOC" is set correctly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If anyone else can confirm that this works, I'll submit it for Togan's unofficial FAQ. I'm also waiting on a response from a guy in my local user's group who's trying to do the same thing. -- ====================================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "[When the Pilot Island fog siren sounds,] the sound is so intense that no chicken can be hatched on the island, as the vibration kills them in the egg, and it causes milk to curdle in a few minutes." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Ben Fagg, Sturgeon Bay printer, 1890 ======================================================================

Which model wireless card are you using? The newer ones are using the Prism3 chipset and don't necessarily work with the older prism drivers. I'm using a WPC11 v.3 card myself and I've wound up having to use the HostAP drivers because the card is not fully supported using the default orinoco drivers. I'm currently running 8.2 and the SuSE supplied drivers still don't work with my card, It would be a good guess, that if you're running a new Linksys card w/SuSE 8.0, the supplied driver definitely will not work with a newer card. On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 20:37, CMF wrote:

Hi all -

I'm running SuSE 8.0 Pro on my Compaq Armada M700. I recently changed my home network to a wireless router system, and I wanted to know if there were drivers for my Linksys PC Card wireless adapter. If there are, a pointer to the appropriate setup routine would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris Forzetting

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