After finding a (very nice) Berkeley coffee shop with FREE wireless Internet access I had no excuse any more and got a wireless card (Linksys). All I did was to plug it into the PCMCIA slot, a second later I had a "wlan0" interface to use... I just started dhcp on it ("ifup-dhcpd wlan0") and that was all. I tried it at Starbucks ("Hotspot", T-Mobile) first. When you open a browser and enter any URL you always end up with the T-Mobile sign-on screen, after signing in there I had full connectivity.... with the free Internet in Berkeley that step wasn't necessary of course. Anyway, while this was easy we also have a "wireless" button in the network configuration yast2 screen but I frankly admit I don't understand what it does at all! I tried to figure it out but I get errors. So I use the command line. It's easy, it's just another normal ethernet type network interface, just with a different name. Michael Greg Macek wrote:
Outside of what I've read, does anyone have any insight as to what they've done to improve wireless capabilities? Right now I have a T30 with a mini-PCI wireless card and it works great (SuSE 7.3 using hostap drivers). However, it's all manual scripts to bring up the interface, connect, etc. What I'd love to see down the road is something integrated into the OS (or KDE/Gnome) is something similar to what OS X has. Automatically listing available access points, click to connect, determine if a WEP key is needed, ask for it, and assign IP to that card based on how it's setup in YaST (DHCP or static). This would be huge for usability.
If tools like this already exist, please educate me. I haven't found them yet if they do. Thanks.
- Greg