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

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting richard hakes <richard_hakes [at] yahoo.com>:

> 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?


A list of wifi cards, their chipsets and some hints on drivers are available
here
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
and 
http://www.kismetwireless.net/cards.shtml
here

The orinico silver card is well supported in Linux for some years now, so you
should be lucky.  I've been using them with SuSE linux since SuSE 7.2.

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