[SLE] new at wireless configuration

Hi all,

I am afraid I am a bit of a mess trying to install a wireless device in my plain old Toshiba S1900-203 running Open SuSE 10.1.

I've installed the OS from the scratch through Internet. Both a Linksys #[WPC54G v2] and a Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB 2.0 adapter were connected to the PC during installation. None of them was detected by the installation process, thus I'm connected to the net with the onboard ethernet card that is running fine.

lspci -n lists the card with an pciID 104c:9066 that I can easily find at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Nothing about the USB device so I'm guessing some kind of controller must be installed prior to being able to see it.

I've installed ndiswrapper related packages from the online source.

ndiswrapper lists No driver installed what I'm guessing is a regular situation as far as I've installed nothing but the ndiswrapper packages.

Before going ahead and trying to install Windows drivers for the Linksys card I would like to understand the iwconfig output:

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Last login: Tue May 30 13:53:31 2006
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citlali:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

citlali:~ #
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As far as I can understand, lo and eth0 are the local loopback and the onboard ethernet interface.
Please,

1. what sit0 does stand for?

2. is this what is expected to get from a iwconfig considering no wireless driver is loaded

3. what do I need to install/use the Conceptronic USB Wireless adapter?


Thank you very much for your help,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
XEN, Resources Management


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