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

["richard hakes" <richard_hakes [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Still struggling with my PCMCIA card I am trying to get my LINKSYS  WPC11
working, I have done the "diswrapper"stuff and got a driver present and
entered it into YAST

I cannot get "ifconfig" to recognize my card.

 I have been in YAST and configured the card will all the variations I can
think of!

My windows xp shows the wireless settings as

Network Name (SSID): mshome
Network Key (WEP/WPA Key): 1d89480911204cc69f17291853
Key Provided Automatically (802.1x): 0
Network Authentication Type: open
Data Encryption Type: WEP
Connection Type: ESS
Key Index:

So I assume that the YAST settings should be Essid  = mshome

But what does the rest mean?

What needs to go into YAST?

If this is not correct will this stop YAST working or is there some other
reason?


-----Original Message-----
From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Dawson
Sent: 08 November 2004 11:56
To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] SUSE 9.1 and PCMCIA wi-fi cards

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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