[Sheflug] Re: SUSE 9.1 and PCMCIA wi-fi cards

["Richard Ibbotson" <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard
 
> I have got myself suse 9.1 personal working fine on my shine new
> dell
> laptop.  I wanted to get it working with my wi-fi via a PCMCIA
> card. I have
> got myself a linksys  wpc11 card v4, fine with xp but not suse, I
> have tried
> a dink dwl-650+ same result. I know its something to do with the
> support for
> the cards. But so far I have not had any success despite numerous
> instruction and howto's. Will the Orinoco silver card work with
> suse?

Should do but can't confirm it.

What I did was have a look through e-bay and found a Cisco 350 Wi-Fi 
card for £20.  Seems to be the way to go with SuSE 9.1 and Debian and 
the BSDs.  Works fine with NetBSD 2.0 and OpenBSD 3.6.

Other one is a trip to Maplins to get hold of their USB based Wi-Fi 
interface for about £25.00.  Works for me.  If you want to know more 
about the USB version let me know.  Maplins have several and they 
will probably sell you the wrong one.

Regards



Richard


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