Linksys Wmp54g In Suse 10.3 Doesnt Work?

ok so im pretty new to linux i've done a couple redhat installs a looong time ago thats it and allways had a really hard time with networking in linux they just made it all way too complicated...
anyway suse installed wonderfully and everything just kind of worked, except my wireless card.
It LOOKED like it installed fine but just didn't work, I went through and filled in the information in yast/network devices/network card (and set it up to use knetworkmanager) and when I pull knetwork manager up it shows no wireless networks if i try to manualy connect it fails, i start hunting online and find a tutorial specificaly for my card using ndiswrapper 1.47(thats the version that came with suse and the version the tutorial said to use)...still the same problem, the light on the card isnt even on i cant get it to do anything...
does anyone know how to set this up?
is there a reasonable way to do it?
and god WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT? shouldn't i just basically have to use ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf
then use ndiswrapper as the module name? is there a gui for ndiswrapper? can someone point me to a tutorial to set this up that actualy explains what (at least command line) steps do?
this really seems so much more complicated than it should be whats the big deal???

have a look here http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.ph...andname=Linksys will tell you how well the device works under *nix & depending on your chip-set, which driver to use
and if you haven't already, check out andrew18's ndiswrapper tutorial here http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/

have a look here http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_p...ndname=Linksys will tell you how well the device works under *nix & depending on your chip-set, which driver to use
and if you haven't already, check out andrew18's ndiswrapper tutorial here http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/
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That was very helpful, there IS a native driver for my card (its the version 4.1)
I downloaded it and tried to get it to work to no avail...
I followed the instructions with the driver and well Im still confused...
I have make installed but
when i run the make commands the instructions say to run it either supplies no results and just gives me a prompt again
(when i do something like cp Makefile.6 ./Makefile)
or gives me errors saying i didn't specify rules
(when i do Make all)

I found a separate set of instructions thats almost the same (but for ubuntu) that i thought id check out and had similar problems...

im using the commands with the EXACT syntax in the instructions(im not sure i posted the commands on here exactly perfect im posting from another pc) and getting errors or no response...

can someone please explain what im doing wrong or give me a link to installing the RT61 native driver in suse 10.3(the one included with the driver says tested on redhat and the other 2 i found were ubuntu and slackware)?

thanks guys

Ok first off, i'm assuming this is a laptop, does it have a working wired network interface??
If you have a working wired connection, have you added the community repositories yet?
make sure you have the packeman repositories added, and see if your system will find a driver for the wireless card then.

reason for being so hard.. just about all the distros now have a policy of only opensource code for anything that touches the kernel.

opernSUSE is one of them. I bet the chipset in your wireless card is broadcom. There has always been trouble getting those to work as broadcom doesnt want to show anyone their code..


I hope this helps. Packman might have the driver you are seeking, but I am not certain they will.

Ok first off, i'm assuming this is a laptop, does it have a working wired network interface??
If you have a working wired connection, have you added the community repositories yet?
make sure you have the packeman repositories added, and see if your system will find a driver for the wireless card then.

reason for being so hard.. just about all the distros now have a policy of only opensource code for anything that touches the kernel.

opernSUSE is one of them. I bet the chipset in your wireless card is broadcom. There has always been trouble getting those to work as broadcom doesnt want to show anyone their code..
I hope this helps. Packman might have the driver you are seeking, but I am not certain they will.
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Ok...so Im pretty sure I got the card setup correctly using a ndiswrapper tutorial, (the light on the card comes on now) but when i try to use knetworkmanager although it sees the network with great signal strength it gets to 28% (says configuring adaptor) and dies durring this time with the status window open I can see that it IS sending and receiving packets(another reason I think its working right) there was another post with a guy having this problem and someone said it could be the encryption method... the setting on my router is set to unencrypted so I set it up for unencrypted...still having the same problem....anyone got any ideas??

Also its not a laptop, its my desktop Im using wireless to avoid running cat5 through the house as the router is a couple rooms away this is pci card and its not broadcom its actually Ralink, suse seemed to recognize it right off but it didnt work at all the way it set it up, Im dual booting with xp so any downloads Im just downloading in xp where it works great and saving them to disk swapping to suse and trying to set whatever up...
Thanks again guys Im very impressed with this community, you've been a big help

Ok...so Im pretty sure I got the card setup correctly using a ndiswrapper tutorial, (the light on the card comes on now) but when i try to use knetworkmanager although it sees the network with great signal strength it gets to 28% (says configuring adaptor) and dies durring this time with the status window open I can see that it IS sending and receiving packets(another reason I think its working right) there was another post with a guy having this problem and someone said it could be the encryption method... the setting on my router is set to unencrypted so I set it up for unencrypted...still having the same problem....anyone got any ideas??

Also its not a laptop, its my desktop Im using wireless to avoid running cat5 through the house as the router is a couple rooms away this is pci card and its not broadcom its actually Ralink, suse seemed to recognize it right off but it didnt work at all the way it set it up, Im dual booting with xp so any downloads Im just downloading in xp where it works great and saving them to disk swapping to suse and trying to set whatever up...
Thanks again guys Im very impressed with this community, you've been a big help
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ah just found this
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8120
you are not the only one.........

ah just found this
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8120
you are not the only one.........
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I don't think its a heat issue? also I can only see my network, but now that its set up with ndiswrapper I CAN see it and my card seems to to be comming on(so Im assuming Im closer to getting it working) but I just cant connect to it now, I have no encryption setup(on the wireless router or in suse) and it just stops at 29ish percent (it says configuring adaptor) but the status shows its successfully sending data back and forth , shows a good connection, the light on the card flashes etc. then it says connection failed and closes.

instead of knetwork manager, try using traditional ifup method. not all devices work with network manager.

I don't think its a heat issue? also I can only see my network, but now that its set up with ndiswrapper I CAN see it and my card seems to to be comming on(so Im assuming Im closer to getting it working) but I just cant connect to it now, I have no encryption setup(on the wireless router or in suse) and it just stops at 29ish percent (it says configuring adaptor) but the status shows its successfully sending data back and forth , shows a good connection, the light on the card flashes etc. then it says connection failed and closes.
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i would also check and make sure your firewall is not running until you can connect.

instead of knetwork manager, try using traditional ifup method. not all devices work with network manager.
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I guess thats true =) I didnt use ifup, but it worked on the first try with wifi-radar I'm browsing from suse now with firefox and also running aim and msn clients without any problems thanks for all the help guys!!!!