Re: [SLE] Wireless - looking at netgear

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:16:45 +0100 (BST)
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

Good Morning,

I can confirm that the driver for Netgear Prism 2.5
wlan/wifi devices works successfully with the Netgear
MA311 PCI card.

The installation is pretty smooth.

I forgot I still had another ethernet NIC (Realtek
RTL-8029(AS) installed and the YaST hardware detection
routine found both, and configured the Realtek as
eth0 and left the Netgear wifi adapter un-configured.
But I clicked on Change, and manually deleted the
configuration for the Realtek, and started on the
Netgear MA311.

Pretty straight forward. I went into the Detailed
Settings out of curiosity, and changed the Host Name
from the default value of 'linux' and one other
setting for Default Gateway. There are 3 sections to
the Detailed Settings: HostName, Routing Details,
Hardware Details.
Then we were on to the Test. It ran OK. It might be
usefull to have an indicator of the signal strength at
this point. If you have your system in a poor
reception zone you would doubtless run into some
problems here. Today I was lucky. This PC is sitting
1 X floor and a couple of brick walls from its base
station, and gets anything between 60% and 0% signal
strength. It's a bit like an old TV. So long as you
stand in the right place you get an excellent
reception. Then the next day its completely different.

This is fantastic. No need to trawl about to collect
source code and compile. It runs straight out of the
box. Well done SuSE !

OK. Time to try out the first re-boot after install.

Wish me luck !

Cheers Bill.

 --- William Wolfe <w_j_wolfe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi
Guys,
>
> This is all very encouraging. Thanks for the
> supporting comments.
>
> I will have to have a go with the install disk and
> see what the hardware recognition routines make of
> it all.
>
> More later.....
>
> Cheers Bill.
>
> sjb <ottaky@ottaky.com> wrote:
>
> I have a MA701 (CF type) with the Prism chipset and
> it works without having to compile any external
> drivers.
>
> Back when 802.11b was new, I did use the drivers
> from linux-wlan but you'll probably not have to go
> there ;-)
>
> sjb
>
>
> david stevenson <suse@avoncliff.com> wrote:
>
>
> It is still confusing, but things are improving
> fast, and the first part is they work well,
> At any rate SUSE 8.2 has built in all the drivers
> you need for MA401 (and I guess MA311 but have not
> tried) so it is almost plug it in and it works.
> In my case YAST could not cope with the config but
> YMMV
> David
>
>
>
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