John R. Sowden wrote:
I just installed opensuse 10.3 on a compaq presario st2172nx (32 bit dual
core), with a usb wireless plugged in. There seems to be no programs or
yast2 or ... to assist in usb wifi, or any wifi for that matter. I am using
a netgear usb device (the one I am using now on a suse 9.3 box), and it si
not recognized. Yast2->net devices->net card->only the not used eth0. I
added the usb, but it does not check the airwaves, allow me to enter the
netname, etc.
there is probably work to do on this direction on the wiki. I had the
very same problem one week ago :-)
I added some words in a page for indexing purpose, but this don't
seems to be well set by the wiki search engine.
I will spend some time in the http://en.opensuse.org/WiFi_HOWTO page
right now to try make things better.
for the moment, some clues:
* some wifi cards have proprietary drivers and need absolutely
ndiswrapper to work. You have to figure out what is the proprietary
driver on the windows cd, which is not always easy... I failed to do
so for a DWL-G122 usn key
* some other wifi cards need a proprietary firmware to be dowloaded
from the net. This was the case of my laptop card, solved previous
week :-) and documented in the wiki
* very often "wifi" is not used, but "wlan" instead. Search the wiki
for these two words and see is you find what you need.
please report here to help others, thanks
jdd
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