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