Buffalo driver

From: David (davidcollins_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:56:23 GMT

Hi,

I have a Buffalo wireless setup. The router is a WHR HP G54 and the card in
the pc is a WLI2-PCI-G54S.
Under Windows XP Pro everything works fine. I can access the Internet from
the wireless laptop and the pc. I can also share files and printers between
the laptop and pc.
My problem is with Linux, SUSE 10 OSS. I have discovered by doing the rounds
with the newsgroups and forums that the best driver? is bcmwl5.inf file. I
have accumulated various versions of this file. NDISWRAPPER is installed
with SUSE and appears to work ok. Under XP I can read all the files but
under Linux I can read a few but some say it is a binary file. I have tried
ro install each of these inf files one at a time and all I get is the prompt
again. If I then do ndiswrapper -l it says invalid driver. I then do
ndiswrapper -e to remove the file but when I do ndiswrapper -l again it says
the drivers are not there. So, I try to install again and it says the
driver is already an alias. Consequently I cannot access the Internet from
SUSE. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong or does anyone have any ideas
what I should be doing?

TIA

David

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