Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb Benjamin Rosenberg:
> I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He
> no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and
> would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that
> "just works" with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general.


any atheros-based card.
and yes, i know that they need madwifi, and madwifi is not part of opensuse 
anymore.
no problem.
download the whole content of http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2/ and burn it to a 
cd.
then, during installation of 10.2 choose "include additional media" and point 
it to that cd. installation will complain about "no product on cd" or 
somesuch, because that folder on madwifi.org is a YUM source and no yast 
source. ignore that and choose the presented option to "add all packages from 
media".

then, during installation there's a point where you can customize the package 
selection. you have to click on "details" on that screen to be able to 
actually select individual packages. set the filter to "installation sources" 
and select the second source which has only a device shown but no product 
name. then you'll notice that yast already choose the madwifi package from 
that source. add the kernel driver package matching your system (SMP 
or "normal") and you'll be able to use your wlan card right from the start, 
even during the "registration" process that comes just before the first 
online update.
did that just yesterday, worked like a charm.

the card i'm using myself is a "level one wpc-0300", was pretty cheap, too.


bye,
        MH

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