Suselinux10.3 And Wireless Networking Problem

hi there

i have recently downloaded SuseLinux10.3, it is working fine except when i wanted to connect it via a wireless network adapter (BELKIN) in which the driver is originally for windows operating system, can anyone please guide me how can i connect SuseLinux using this adapter.

thanks
Land

there are 2 methods to this depending on the actual chipset of the device.to find out the chipset, open a console, su to root & issue the following command

lspci -v

paste the output here,then we can tell you the best way to get it working

andy

hi there

i have recently downloaded SuseLinux10.3, it is working fine except when i wanted to connect it via a wireless network adapter (BELKIN) in which the driver is originally for windows operating system, can anyone please guide me how can i connect SuseLinux using this adapter.

thanks
Land
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Hello and WELCOME to the Forum
Depending on the adapter you can use Ndiswrapper or Madwifi or if it has a native Linux driver you can use that. If it's showing in Yast --> Network Devices --> Network cards then it's a native driver, other wise the other two. Here's a starter for background to get you going:
Madwifi or Ndiswrapper Wireless Network Drivers in a Suse/openSUSE 10.x
and there's abunch of helpful pointers pinned to the opening page of this forum

If you get into trouble, post some diagnostics

Swerdna