So Tired, About To Give In

I just installed open suse on my computer, I chose this over reinstalling windows because of all the great things I have herd about Linux.... I am really starting to regret at this point when I have been up for three days trying to get things to work and nothing nothing will co-operate. So now that I have finally got suse up and running I am trying to figure out how to get my linksys 802.11g wireless usb device to work... suse seems to recognize it however it is always showing as not connected... how can I get it connected? I am the most basic of basic of Linux users out there I am just now learning so baby terms would be great!

depending on the model number, e.g. linksys wusbxxx, i may be able to help. so if you could give the full make & model of the device, we will take it from there

Andy

Thank you so much for the quck reply (I am also in the suse help chat, I think) it is a linksys wusb54g or gr or gc

ok, i believe it uses the rt2xxx chip-set, try following this guide http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...mp;#entry208353 & see if it helps

Andy

ok, i believe it uses the rt2xxx chip-set, try following this guide http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...mp;#entry208353 & see if it helps

Andy
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Thank you very much for the direction, looks easy to read, I am off to try it, hope it works! Thanks again!

Good luck, report back with any problems & we will try to help

Andy

ok just ran into first problem with directions... it says search for kernel source and I come up with nothing... I tried kernel-source and kernel source... now what do I do?

open YaST, then click on software management. in the search field type kernel & press enter. in the box on the right, scroll down until you find kernel source

Andy

Ok it also says to serch for gcc and for make
gcc = the gcc processor is that right? or am I just looking for gcc if so I dont have that either...
make= xdg-menu menus for window maker and other windows managers 44 I see nothing about make or auto make so I guess I am missing those as well? Maybee I downloaded a bad version of open suse? What do I do from here?

open YaST, then click on software management. in the search field type kernel & press enter. in the box on the right, scroll down until you find kernel source

Andy
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"no results"

for gcc,look for gcc++, make should be in there as well,full name is Gnu-make

Andy