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

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 09:34, richard hakes wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> 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?
> 
> Any help or suggestions!
> 
>  
> 
> Richard Hakes
> 
> 0114 2339912
> 
> richard_hakes [at] yahoo.com
> 
>  
Richard,
	I've found this on a Fedora site. The extract is between the lines. If
you get the srpm and rebuild it with suse, perhaps that will do it.
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"This is a WiFi 802.11b CardBus PCMCIA. As I've read through some page,
 it works with the acx100 drivers. I understand that this kernel module
 is precompiled in dag.wieers' repository. Is there a generic SRPM of
 this, as I'd rather have the option of (re)compiling myself, so I
 don't have to wait for the precompiled rpms when there is a new kernel
 out.

You can always recompile it yourself by doing:

	rpmrebuild --define "kernel 2.4.22-1.2148.nptl" kernel-module-acx100-*.src.rpm

You can find the packages (including Source RPMs, buildlogs and SPEC file) 
at:

	http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-acx100/";
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Peter C


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