Two Questions?

I'm thinking of installing OpenSuse very soon and I just need to know two
things:
Will OpenSuse work with my Atheros AR5006EG Wireless Network Adapter or is
there a driver avalible for it?

And
Can I use beryl with my system?

System Specs:
Intel Celeron M 410 @ 1.46 GHz Proccessor
512 MB RAM
128 MB ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Graphics Card

Thanks
Sam

Sam,

you need the madwifi driver for the wireless NIC, and the proprietary ATI drivers from ATI to make it work, but yes, it should run fine.

I asume it is a laptop: Check if the model is listed under
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops

If you run into problems, tuxmobile.org is also a big help.

Uwe

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Sam Braidley wrote:
> I'm thinking of installing OpenSuse very soon and I just need to know
> two things:
> Will OpenSuse work with my Atheros AR5006EG Wireless Network Adapter or
> is there a driver avalible for it?
>
> And
> Can I use beryl with my system?
>
> System Specs:
> Intel Celeron M 410 @ 1.46 GHz Proccessor
> 512 MB RAM
> 128 MB ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Graphics Card
>
> Thanks
> Sam
>

Add http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2 to your installations sources , then you can install
the madwifi drivers from YaST , and you get them updated when needed.

The ATI card may work, or not, they just can't write kernel modules.
It's more important for them to make a vista compatible card then ask a
linux kernel developer for help how to make something that don't mess the kernel.

/bb