This is JUST what I was looking for. Thank you very much.
On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mathias Homann wrote:
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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