Wireless Network Setup Noob

I am a new Linux user and I am very impressed!! It sure beats the pants
off of all of the M$ operating systems. I do have one problem though. I
just installed SuSe 10.0 on my Compak Presario R3240US and I can't get my
wireless card to work.

The wireless card is onboard and I believe it is a Broadcom card. I think
I located the driver on the Broadcom website. It's downloaded, but I have
NO idea how to install it. If you could give me some pointers, that would
help A LOT!

Thanks ahead of time for your time and support.

Aaron

Aaron.Rosencrans@gmail.com wrote:

> The wireless card is onboard and I believe it is a Broadcom card. I think
> I located the driver on the Broadcom website. It's downloaded, but I have
> NO idea how to install it. If you could give me some pointers, that would
> help A LOT!

Welcome to the Linux world! I assume the driver you downloaded is a windows
driver. This will work, you just need to use the ndiswrapper program to use
it under linux. It is available in YaST. Install it then see
/usr/share/doc/packages/ndiswrapper/README.SUSE for more information on
using it.

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Kirk Coombs

I too have a Compaq with built-in Broadcom chipset.

I fiddled for days reading various instructions for gett the NDIS wrapper
to work.

Finally spent $15 for a Proxim wireless pcmcia card and have been happily
wirelessing ever since :-) Worked right out of the box!!!



> I am a new Linux user and I am very impressed!! It sure beats the pants
> off of all of the M$ operating systems. I do have one problem though. I
> just installed SuSe 10.0 on my Compak Presario R3240US and I can't get my
> wireless card to work.
>
> The wireless card is onboard and I believe it is a Broadcom card. I think
> I located the driver on the Broadcom website. It's downloaded, but I have
> NO idea how to install it. If you could give me some pointers, that would
> help A LOT!
>
> Thanks ahead of time for your time and support.
>
> Aaron

> I too have a Compaq with built-in Broadcom chipset.
>
> I fiddled for days reading various instructions for gett the NDIS wrapper
> to work.
>
> Finally spent $15 for a Proxim wireless pcmcia card and have been happily
> wirelessing ever since :-) Worked right out of the box!!!
>
>
>
> > I am a new Linux user and I am very impressed!! It sure beats the pants
> > off of all of the M$ operating systems. I do have one problem though. I
> > just installed SuSe 10.0 on my Compak Presario R3240US and I can't get my
> > wireless card to work.
> >
> > The wireless card is onboard and I believe it is a Broadcom card. I think
> > I located the driver on the Broadcom website. It's downloaded, but I have
> > NO idea how to install it. If you could give me some pointers, that would
> > help A LOT!
> >
> > Thanks ahead of time for your time and support.
> >
> > Aaron
>
try this site
http://nextgen.no-ip.org/%7Eandrew/l...pperinfo10.php

Well continuing in this post only I would like to resolve my problem. I
have an HP dv6700t special Edition laptop. I just ran the Live cd of
Open SuSE 10.3 in order to check the compatibility of the OS with the
system. All was working fine except the multimedia buttons (not a
concern) and the wireless card. My wireless card is an Intel 4965 ABGN
card and officially it works fine with SUSE. Knetwork was showing all
the networks it was catching but I was unable to hook up even to
one...even to one which was unencrypted one. Please help me resolve the
situation.


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The live trial disk tends to be lighter on drivers than a full install.
Also, there are a number of wireles drivers that are not avaialable in the
base install, but can be added from community repositories after the
base installation.

If the card is on the supported list, you should expect to be able to make
it work.

-jt

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:36:02 +0000, Parakh wrote:

>
> Well continuing in this post only I would like to resolve my problem. I
> have an HP dv6700t special Edition laptop. I just ran the Live cd of Open
> SuSE 10.3 in order to check the compatibility of the OS with the system.
> All was working fine except the multimedia buttons (not a concern) and the
> wireless card. My wireless card is an Intel 4965 ABGN card and officially
> it works fine with SUSE. Knetwork was showing all the networks it was
> catching but I was unable to hook up even to one...even to one which was
> unencrypted one. Please help me resolve the situation.

Thanks James for the informative suggestion. I will try after
installation of the operating system.


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