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A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE. I intend to connect my laptop to a DSL/Cable router with a wireless connection. The laptop has SuSE 8.0 installed, though I do have a copy of 8.1 sitting here waiting to be used. Using the built-in NIC I can connect the laptop to the internet, however, I want to use wireless for the laptop. A Google search shows that 8.1 is supposed to have lots of extra ability regarding wireless (OK), but also shows a lot of people saying they can not get various brand name PCMCIA cards to work. The SuSE database has information regarding a wireless setup, but does not give brand names known to work. Locally D-Link and Linksys is readily available. From the internet, almost anything is available. Considering that a wireless access point cost as much or more than a new DSL/Cable wireless 4-port router, I will probably buy a new router to match the PCMCIA wireless card. What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2. Thanks for any recommendations. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
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Ralph Sanford wrote:
What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2.
Hi Ralph, I have 8.1 on my Satellite .. my Xircom (Cisco) CWE1120 cards worked out of the box. They also worked on 7.4 and 8.0 with a bit of config editing. sjb
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If you ever get your wireless setup to work let me know how you did it please? I've been struggling with getting it setup with or without Wep but no success as yet under SuSE 8/8.1... Dre -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Sanford [mailto:rsanford@telusplanet.net] Sent: 06 December 2002 15:18 To: SuSE Mail List Subject: [SLE] Wireless to connect SuSE laptop with router A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE. I intend to connect my laptop to a DSL/Cable router with a wireless connection. The laptop has SuSE 8.0 installed, though I do have a copy of 8.1 sitting here waiting to be used. Using the built-in NIC I can connect the laptop to the internet, however, I want to use wireless for the laptop. A Google search shows that 8.1 is supposed to have lots of extra ability regarding wireless (OK), but also shows a lot of people saying they can not get various brand name PCMCIA cards to work. The SuSE database has information regarding a wireless setup, but does not give brand names known to work. Locally D-Link and Linksys is readily available. From the internet, almost anything is available. Considering that a wireless access point cost as much or more than a new DSL/Cable wireless 4-port router, I will probably buy a new router to match the PCMCIA wireless card. What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2. Thanks for any recommendations. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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On Friday 06 December 2002 15:18, Ralph Sanford wrote:
A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE.
I intend to connect my laptop to a DSL/Cable router with a wireless connection. The laptop has SuSE 8.0 installed, though I do have a copy of 8.1 sitting here waiting to be used. Using the built-in NIC I can connect the laptop to the internet, however, I want to use wireless for the laptop.
A Google search shows that 8.1 is supposed to have lots of extra ability regarding wireless (OK), but also shows a lot of people saying they can not get various brand name PCMCIA cards to work. The SuSE database has information regarding a wireless setup, but does not give brand names known to work. Locally D-Link and Linksys is readily available. From the internet, almost anything is available.
Considering that a wireless access point cost as much or more than a new DSL/Cable wireless 4-port router, I will probably buy a new router to match the PCMCIA wireless card.
What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2.
Thanks for any recommendations.
Ralph, I have a Netgear ma401r wireless card 'connected' to a Netgear ME102 Access Point. (In turn connected to a hub...My USB ADSL connects via a Smoothwall box to this Hub) I won't say it was easy, but this does work with a Toshiba Satellite 1100 and SuSE8.1 -WEP included) If you do try this and have problems, I'll try and help.. Pete
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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:18, Ralph Sanford wrote:
A question about wireless compatibility with SuSE.
What brands are know to work with SuSE? Working with SuSE is priority number 1, security is priority number 2.
Ralph, I have a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card and a Netgear ME102 base station. you need a PC to initially configure the access point through its USB interface although once it has an IP address there are some Perl scrips available to configure it from Linux using SNMP. The PCMCIA card worked first time in my Dell Latitude laptop, although I did find that it would sometimes lose connection with the base station and I would need to stop and start the network card to re-connect. I corrected this by downloading and installing the latest Orinoco driver, this compiled and installed in seconds since then I have had no problems. Even before upgrading the Orinoco driver I was able to configure WEP which again worked first time. Beware of D-Link cards, I understand from other messages on the list that they have changed the chipset and there is no Linux driver available. -- David Bottrill <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com>
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I am trying to get a wireless LAN working too. I have a Linksys modle BEFW11S4 Wireless Access Point Router with 4 port swich, and a Linksys Network PC Card WPC11. I am having trouble getting any of this to work. Any suggestions? -- Best Regards, Bruce Bruce E. Harris <beharri@speakeasy.net> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "If you speak the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -- Mark Twain
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"Bruce" == Bruce E Harris <beharri@speakeasy.net> writes:
Bruce> I am trying to get a wireless LAN working too. I have a Bruce> Linksys modle BEFW11S4 Wireless Access Point Router with 4 Bruce> port swich, and a Linksys Network PC Card WPC11. I am Bruce> having trouble getting any of this to work. Bruce> Any suggestions? Works like a charm for me (suse 7.3, linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15.tar.bz2). The biggest headaches I had were: 1) I needed to do a "make" in /usr/src/linux to get the version.h files. Don't redo your config. 2) yast[2] doesn't know about wlan (7.3!), so I had to edit a bunch of config things by hand -- the routing tables were the biggest headache because the info (at the time) at suse was wrong. Don't forget alias wlan0 prism2_pci in /etc/modules.conf Note: I am using a PCI card -- not PCMIA. -- __@ Greg Franks <| _~@ __O _`\<,_ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |O\ -^\<;^\<, (*)/ (*) (*)--(*)%---/(*) "Where do you want to go today?" Outside.
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Thanks, that will be one of my many projects tomorrow. On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:00 pm, Greg Franks wrote:
"Bruce" == Bruce E Harris <beharri@speakeasy.net> writes:
Bruce> I am trying to get a wireless LAN working too. I have a Bruce> Linksys modle BEFW11S4 Wireless Access Point Router with 4 Bruce> port swich, and a Linksys Network PC Card WPC11. I am Bruce> having trouble getting any of this to work.
Bruce> Any suggestions?
Works like a charm for me (suse 7.3, linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15.tar.bz2). The biggest headaches I had were: 1) I needed to do a "make" in /usr/src/linux to get the version.h files. Don't redo your config. 2) yast[2] doesn't know about wlan (7.3!), so I had to edit a bunch of config things by hand -- the routing tables were the biggest headache because the info (at the time) at suse was wrong. Don't forget
alias wlan0 prism2_pci
in /etc/modules.conf
Note: I am using a PCI card -- not PCMIA.
-- Best Regards, Bruce Bruce E. Harris <beharri@speakeasy.net> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "If you speak the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -- Mark Twain
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arawak
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Bruce E.Harris
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David Bottrill
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Greg Franks
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pete atkinson
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Ralph Sanford
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sjb