Re: Wireless and SuSE

Colin Walls <c.t.walls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

SWMBO has been having problems with XP and has become so exasperated she has
agreed to try Linux.

I put SuSE 10.3 on her system and everything appears to be tickety-boo.
Apart from networking that is. She connects to the router using a Netgear
WG311v3 wireless card that needs to use ndiswrapper to drive it.

I can get this to load and get an initial configuration working. However it
isn't stable and I can't get it to reconnect automatically after a reboot.

Any help available with the configuration I currently have? Alternately, I
am prepared to swap out the wireless card for one that has a real driver or
change the distro.

Its all down to chipset of the network card, and I would consider Ndiswrapper
and windows drivers to be an absolute last resort.

In my experience a laptop with Intel Centrino works out of the box with
either Fedora or Ubuntu ( from a Live CD ) and Network Manager. I would expect
the same to be true with Suse, but have no experience. I don't know if there
are any cards with this chipset, but if there is that sohould be first choice.

Alternativly I have had success with a card using the RT61 chipset, I got it
from Linuxemporium. It came with instructions and a CD with linux drivers
but I couldn't get them to work.

I did find an RT61 driver project, with GUI, which compiles against the kernel
source, rather than recompile the kernel. I works on my old laptop, running
fedora 7. The only downside is that the driver and GUI need to be recompiled
after each kernel update.

HTH Phil
--
Old protocols never die. They just get migrated over TCP/IP.
.

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