Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

Teilhard Knight wrote:
Hello:

I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my
wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of
the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2
detects
the card all right. Problem is, when I try to configure the card the
platform announces it will install the atmel-firmware, but upon
accepting it
installs nothing. I have loaded the firmware .bin files in
/lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/firmware/, but still Yast2
attempts to
install the firmware. I have thought that maybe installing the firmware
package Yast2 will detect the package installed an will allow me to
configure my nic. But I am afraid I have not an idea of what to choose
among: "atmel-firmware-1.3-1.noarch.rpm" or
"atmel-firmware-1.3-1.src.rpm"
or "atmel-firmware-1.3-1fc3.src.rpm" or lastly:
"atmel-firmware-1.3-1fc3.noarch.rpm". My box is an AMD64.

I tried writing the configuration file "ifcfg-wlan0" in
/etc/sysconfig/network, but Yast2 detected this as another (absent)
interface.

Any help will be appreciated.

Teilhard


The following link give a fairly comprehensive set of information on
WiFI and Linux. I have found the openSuse stuff to be a little thin.
There is a bit of a problem with 64 operating systems and WiFi drivers
for both Windows and Linux users in so far as suppliers tend not to
create 32 bit drivers and 32 bit drivers generally do not work with 64
bit operating systems. The NDISwrapper site of sourceforge is a lso a
good resource. Good luck....

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