[opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that "just works" with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general. Thanks! - Ben Rosenberg -- "We should forgive our enemies. But not before they are hanged." Heinrich Heine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that "just works" with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general.
www.edimax.com.tw has some rt2500 ones. some rt73. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
This appears to be just what I needed. Thank you. On Jan 14, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
rt73
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Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb Benjamin Rosenberg:
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that "just works" with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general.
any atheros-based card. and yes, i know that they need madwifi, and madwifi is not part of opensuse anymore. no problem. download the whole content of http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2/ and burn it to a cd. then, during installation of 10.2 choose "include additional media" and point it to that cd. installation will complain about "no product on cd" or somesuch, because that folder on madwifi.org is a YUM source and no yast source. ignore that and choose the presented option to "add all packages from media". then, during installation there's a point where you can customize the package selection. you have to click on "details" on that screen to be able to actually select individual packages. set the filter to "installation sources" and select the second source which has only a device shown but no product name. then you'll notice that yast already choose the madwifi package from that source. add the kernel driver package matching your system (SMP or "normal") and you'll be able to use your wlan card right from the start, even during the "registration" process that comes just before the first online update. did that just yesterday, worked like a charm. the card i'm using myself is a "level one wpc-0300", was pretty cheap, too. bye, MH -- Die unaufgeforderte Zusendung einer Werbemail an Privatleute verstößt gegen §1 UWG und 823 I BGB (Beschluß des LG Berlin vom 2.8.1998 Az: 16 O 201/98). Jede kommerzielle Nutzung der übermittelten persönlichen Daten sowie deren Weitergabe an Dritte ist ausdrücklich untersagt! gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
This is JUST what I was looking for. Thank you very much. On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb Benjamin Rosenberg:
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that "just works" with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general.
any atheros-based card. and yes, i know that they need madwifi, and madwifi is not part of opensuse anymore. no problem. download the whole content of http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2/ and burn it to a cd. then, during installation of 10.2 choose "include additional media" and point it to that cd. installation will complain about "no product on cd" or somesuch, because that folder on madwifi.org is a YUM source and no yast source. ignore that and choose the presented option to "add all packages from media".
then, during installation there's a point where you can customize the package selection. you have to click on "details" on that screen to be able to actually select individual packages. set the filter to "installation sources" and select the second source which has only a device shown but no product name. then you'll notice that yast already choose the madwifi package from that source. add the kernel driver package matching your system (SMP or "normal") and you'll be able to use your wlan card right from the start, even during the "registration" process that comes just before the first online update. did that just yesterday, worked like a charm.
the card i'm using myself is a "level one wpc-0300", was pretty cheap, too.
bye, MH
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