Re: Configureing my wireless card

From: Ernie (jernestpaschal_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:52:25 -0500

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:58:18 -0500, bugman <bugman@optonline.net>
wrote:

>OK, everything is working great on my laptop with personal 9. The only
>thing that XP does that Suse doesn't is allow me to sit on the couch and
>connect to my wireless router (Linksys). Is it possible for a newbie to
>do this? Big Job? Little Job? My card is a Linksys wp54g PCMCIA and
>there is no Linux driver at their website.

I am using the Linuxant driver with my Thinkpad 770Z and Linksys
WPC54G. The wireless card works as well with this driver as my Win2k
partition. It will take some fiddling with the install, getting
authorization keys, etc. They had a 30 day trial when I initially
downloaded. The only issue I encountered was that I could not load
the drivers automatically during the boot process. I had to change to
"manual" and have to issue a "ifup wlan0" command to get things
perking. I am quite happy with it's performance with SuSE 9.0 and the
freedom of a good wireless connection.

Good Luck

Ernie

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