I am pretty much a noob at linux, although I have a had a desktop running it for a few years now.
I am currently running v11.3… Yes I will be upgrading to 12.1 soon.
I decided to move my router to a new location, but I wanted to leave my Linux desktop where it was. So adding wireless to that computer was the simplest solution.
I first bought a Trendnet TEW-643PI card which did not work… even with ndiswrapper.
So returned that card and bought a TP-Link TL-WN851ND PCI card.
After installing it, opensuse recognized it right away. It says its Atheros 9k driver.
I had trouble configuring it correctly in Yast2, but after switching to Network Manager it works perfectly.
I hope this experience can help someone else looking for a wireless N card.
Hi there, I’ve just registered on this forum to ask you how you’ve done this.
I’m a very new user with openSUSE, have just installed openSUSE 12.1 on my desktop this morning. I’ve got the same PCI wireless card as you, TP-LINK TL-WN851ND (Atheros AR9287 chipset) and it’s not picked up by the OS at all.
I’m now using my laptop to get online and reading SDB articles. So far, SDB:Wireless article said Atheros drivers aren’t supported whilst MadWifi says otherwise (although TL-WN851ND wasn’t listed in it’s compatible list). Then, I came across your thread and you siad you’ve got it working!
So, please could you give me some help installing the wireless card? Atm, on System Settings -> Network Connections -> except Wired and VPN, everything else is faded. When I went into yaST2, it says it detects it and is “unconfigured”.
If you need any further info on this, please let me know. I read somewhere that a wired connection should be used for the very first time so the OS could update itself and so on but in my case, it’s kind of impossible.
