wireless PCI cards

Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
SUSElinux 10.0?

I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice on
how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very helpful.

Dave

media@wec-usa.org adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
> SUSElinux 10.0?
>
> I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice
> on how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very
> helpful.
>
> Dave

Quite a few wireless cards work fine with the inbuilt modules however
even cards with no linux drivers will work if you use the ndiswrapper
method which uses a wrapper to allow the use of the windows drivers.

here I have lan pci cards based on the Broadcom chipset which work fine
with the windows drivers and ndiswrapper, there is an open source
project for native drivers/modules but at the meoment it is still in
development AFAICT.

Here is just one site that might help or give you some ideas and links:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...less_linux.htm

I have managed to grab hold of a couple of USB wifi sticks here with
different chipsets to play with but as of yet I have just not had time
to try them to see how easy/hard it is to get them to work.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> media@wec-usa.org adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
> > SUSElinux 10.0?
> >
> > I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice
> > on how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very
> > helpful.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Quite a few wireless cards work fine with the inbuilt modules however
> even cards with no linux drivers will work if you use the ndiswrapper
> method which uses a wrapper to allow the use of the windows drivers.
>
> here I have lan pci cards based on the Broadcom chipset which work fine
> with the windows drivers and ndiswrapper, there is an open source
> project for native drivers/modules but at the meoment it is still in
> development AFAICT.
>
> Here is just one site that might help or give you some ideas and links:
>
> http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...less_linux.htm
>
> I have managed to grab hold of a couple of USB wifi sticks here with
> different chipsets to play with but as of yet I have just not had time
> to try them to see how easy/hard it is to get them to work.
>
> HTH
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>


Through yast I installed ndiswapper. The README file said to get the ndis
driver of my card. I assumed that meant downloading the driver from the
manufacturer. I did that, and now I have the drivers for various Windows
(2000, XP, etc.)

The next step in the dniswapper README file is confusing. It says to instal
the driver with install the driver with:

"ndiswrapper-i <driver>.inf". This copies the driver to a directory below
/etc/ndiswrapper/."

Is this all done in command line or is there a interface I can use in KDE?

Dave Negley

> Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
> SUSElinux 10.0?
>
> I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice on
> how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very helpful.
>
> Dave

I used the Linksys WMP54G Ver 4 pci wireless adapter. It has the ralinink
chipset and it worked right out of the box on SuSE 9.3 and likewise on SuSE
10.0 (You have to take the time and shop around till you get version 4, no
need for the ndis wrapper)

Tony

media@wec-usa.org wrote:

Can you snip a bit when quoting?

> The next step in the dniswapper README file is confusing. It says to
> instal the driver with install the driver with:
>
> "ndiswrapper-i <driver>.inf". This copies the driver to a directory below
> /etc/ndiswrapper/."
>
> Is this all done in command line or is there a interface I can use in KDE?

Yes, as root. No.

--
Ruurd

media@wec-usa.org adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:


> Through yast I installed ndiswapper. The README file said to get the
> ndis driver of my card. I assumed that meant downloading the driver
> from the manufacturer. I did that, and now I have the drivers for
> various Windows (2000, XP, etc.)
>
> The next step in the dniswapper README file is confusing. It says to
> instal the driver with install the driver with:
>
> "ndiswrapper-i <driver>.inf". This copies the driver to a directory
> below
> /etc/ndiswrapper/."
>
> Is this all done in command line or is there a interface I can use in
> KDE?
>
> Dave Negley

Dave,

Here is one of the best walk-through for SuSE on getting the ndiswrapper
running:


http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/lin...rapperinfo.php

What you have to take into account is that there are 2 parts to
ndiswrapper ( if you have not got this far yet ) the application which
takes care of the loading and installing of the "drivers" and a kernel
module that will need to be compiled against your running kernel, no
big deal and not anything like compiling a kernel so don`t panic,
yet :-)

It is all explained in the above link.

Any probs though just holler.

HTH

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

media@wec-usa.org wrote:

> Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
> SUSElinux 10.0?
>
> I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice on
> how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very helpful.
>
> Dave

The ASUS WL-107g works right out the box with 10. It has a ralink chipset so
good support there.

--
Neil

> > Can anyone tell me a wireless PCI 802.11 b/g card that will work in
> > SUSElinux 10.0?
> >
> > I really don't know much about linux, so some instructions and advice on
> > how install the right drivers, firmware, etc. would be very helpful.
> >
> > Dave
>
> I used the Linksys WMP54G Ver 4 pci wireless adapter. It has the ralinink
> chipset and it worked right out of the box on SuSE 9.3 and likewise on SuSE
> 10.0 (You have to take the time and shop around till you get version 4, no
> need for the ndis wrapper)
>
> Tony
>


Thanks for your reply!

When you say, "out of the box", do you mean that you simply installed the
card, booted SUSE 10.0 and went to YAST and configured the card?

Dave

> media@wec-usa.org adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>
> > Through yast I installed ndiswapper. The README file said to get the
> > ndis driver of my card. I assumed that meant downloading the driver
> > from the manufacturer. I did that, and now I have the drivers for
> > various Windows (2000, XP, etc.)
> >
> > The next step in the dniswapper README file is confusing. It says to
> > instal the driver with install the driver with:
> >
> > "ndiswrapper-i <driver>.inf". This copies the driver to a directory
> > below
> > /etc/ndiswrapper/."
> >
> > Is this all done in command line or is there a interface I can use in
> > KDE?
> >
> > Dave Negley
>
> Dave,
>
> Here is one of the best walk-through for SuSE on getting the ndiswrapper
> running:
>
>
> http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/lin...rapperinfo.php
>
> What you have to take into account is that there are 2 parts to
> ndiswrapper ( if you have not got this far yet ) the application which
> takes care of the loading and installing of the "drivers" and a kernel
> module that will need to be compiled against your running kernel, no
> big deal and not anything like compiling a kernel so don`t panic,
> yet :-)
>
> It is all explained in the above link.
>
> Any probs though just holler.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>

Using these instructions I tried to get the ndiswrapper working but
incountered some problems. I think I'm going to return the card and buy the
Linksys one suggested in one of the responses to my original question.

If I has more to to give to it, I would troubleshoot what went wrong.

Thanks for your advice, though.

Dave

media@wec-usa.org adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:


> Using these instructions I tried to get the ndiswrapper working but
> incountered some problems. I think I'm going to return the card and
> buy the Linksys one suggested in one of the responses to my original
> question.
>
> If I has more to to give to it, I would troubleshoot what went wrong.
>
> Thanks for your advice, though.
>
> Dave


No probs Dave,

Just for reference though do you happen to know what the problem was
that stopped it installing?

Could be something very simple that might be needing done or even an
undocumented problem that could need fixing in the application.


--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp