Team(s);
Can you please explain how I can get the Buffalo WLI-UC-GN (USB Ultra Wireless Adaptor) to work on OpenSuSE 11.x…
From Google, I have found that this usb adaptor is based on the RALINK 2870 chipset, but I don’t know how I can get this to work with linux…Please help thank you in advance.
Details are here:
Buffalo Technology - Products - WLI-UC-GN : Nfiniti™ Wireless-N Ultra-Compact USB 2.0 Adapter
Kris
Please post result of uname -a from a terminal
here you go:
katana:~ # uname -a
Linux katana 2.6.27.37-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-10-15 14:56:58 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Add this repo
Index of /repositories/home:/NicoK:/drivers/openSUSE_11.1
Then install the RT2870 Wireless Lan Linux Driver from it
ok can you give me the full syntax: for example:
zypper ar <repo>
When I tried adding from zypper I got this error:
katana:~ # zypper ar /repositories/home:/NicoK:/drivers/openSUSE_11.1
If only one argument is used, it must be a URI pointing to a .repo file.
addrepo (ar) [options] <URI> <alias>
addrepo (ar) [options] <FILE.repo>
Add a repository to the sytem. The repository can be specified by its URI or can be read from specified .repo file (even remote).
Command options:
-r, --repo <FILE.repo> Just another means to specify a .repo file to read.
-t, --type <TYPE> Type of repository (yast2, rpm-md, plaindir).
-d, --disable Add the repository as disabled.
-c, --check Probe URI.
-C, --no-check Don’t probe URI, probe later during refresh.
-n, --name Specify descriptive name for the repository.
-k, --keep-packages Enable RPM files caching.
-K, --no-keep-packages Disable RPM files caching.
-f, --refresh Enable autorefresh of the repository.
It’s possibly easier for you to use YaST - Software Repositories
Repository Management - openSUSE Forums
zypper info if you really want that
su terminal
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/NicoK:/drivers/openSUSE_11.1 wireless
then
zypper ref wireless
This looks good,
but now what? 
katana:~ # zypper ar Index of /repositories/home:/NicoK:/drivers/openSUSE_11.1 wireless
Adding repository ‘wireless’ [done]
Repository ‘wireless’ successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: Index of /repositories/home:/NicoK:/drivers/openSUSE_11.1
katana:~ # zypper ref wireless
New repository or package signing key received:
Key ID: F0776BD11F43BBC3
Key Name: home:NicoK OBS Project <home:NicoK@build.opensuse.org>
Key Fingerprint: 95F3E4F396888415DFBA53E5F0776BD11F43BBC3
Repository: wireless
Do you want to reject the key, trust temporarily, or trust always? [R/t/a/?]: a
Retrieving repository ‘wireless’ metadata [done]
Building repository ‘wireless’ cache [done]
Specified repositories have been refreshed.
How to install driver for my adaptor?
do I reboot, or go through Yast via network applet?
zypper in rt2870sta-kmp-pae
kinda cheated - I found the driver in yast!
It told me to reboot the system.
But guess what how do I add this same chipset to:
Fedora 11 & Ubuntu 9.10
hahahaha
thank you, you get a “Linux Guru Cookie” for helping me out
Kris…
Fedora guide
Fedora11 - Fedora Guide
FedoraForum.org