Re: Second go at getting Wireless to work in SuSe and close to giving up.

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 02/04/05


Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:42:45 -0700

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:19:51 GMT
Thomas Davie <tdavie@rediffmail.com> wrote:

> As a followup, I purchased a cheap network cable, and was able to plug
> into my router and get online.

That's why I keep a spare NIC handy! :-)

> However, I saw no firmware updates
> available in YAST.

Yes, broadcom is still a problem, I believe. Have you had no luck in
googling for this? There are probably still some steps you have to take
even though ndiswrapper is loaded (it's not automatic, after all).

I'm fairly new to wireless on SUSE and it took me several days to get my
Netgear WG311 to work under 9.1 -- after installing 9.2, all I had to do
was the 'Download firmware...' under YOU.

-- 
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
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