On Sunday 13 November 2005 8:42 am, Philip Mark Donaghy wrote:
My wireless card was not detected during the suse 10.0 install. Since most of the Internet forums address earlier versions of suse and other belkin cards, I thought I would take it on here.
I read some interesting stuff about pcmcia card functionality and the new kernel support for hot plug in /usr/share/doc/packages /pcmciautils/README.SUSE Most of the documentation on the net refers to ndiswrapper solutions. I tried to add it manually using Yast with the wireless, bus-pcmcia, and pcmcia options. But that didn't work.
I had the same problem and it took me quite a while to solve it, though a google search helped. I don't remember exactly what I did, but the key was downloading the ***Windows*** driver from the card's manufacturer and then plugging it into ndiswrapper. I also was using "modprobe ndiswrapper" to install it, which worked fine but had to be done for each session. Eventually I got around that one too, though again, I don't remember just what I did. Perhaps someone else here can provide more details. Another problem I still have -- which may or may not affect you -- is that the wireless card and the hard drive use the same IRQ. That produces many anomalies (the SuSE installer couldn't find the hard drive, for instance), which I can get around by unplugging and plugging in the card. I understand that the solution relies on rejiggering the IRQs, but the simplified BIOS in my laptop provides no IRQ controls and I haven't yet figured out how to do something useful from within Linux (probably by loading the right magic at the boot prompt). Paul