6 May
2002
6 May
'02
10:42
Second question: Which WiFi cards are supported by SuSE Linux? I'm thinking of buying one of the cheap USB WiFi NIC adapters sold by Dabs and want to know if these will work with Linux.
Any card based on the Prism2 USB chipset should be supported by Linux. Don't know whether it's included in SuSE's kernel or not - try running "modprobe prism2_usb" and see if the module exists or not. If not, you can easily download and build it. If it's a desktop machine, I would recommend the ActionTec HWP1170 - a Prism2.5 PCI device, sold by Dabs under the Dabs Value brand at (IIRC) just over 50 quid. Michael