[ale] No Wireless on SuSE

[Dan Lambert]

I'm starting to sound redundant, but I would suggest that you try and
see if the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta will work for you. There are a lot of new
features in this rev that seem to solve many of the issues people were
having with some of the earlier Ubuntu releases.

You can try it from the live CD, and your wireless card may function
without even installing the OS. If so, you know for sure that it will
run once it's installed.

Dan

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:15 -0700, Shorter Rankin wrote:
> What is the best distro which has a 2.6x kernel
> plus support for an Orinoco 16 bit 802.11b Classic
> gold card? I am currently running Slackware 11.0
> on a ThinkPad T30. When I boot the default
> 2.4.33.3 kernel my wireless card is recognized
> so I can connect at the public library. But when
> I boot the 2.6.17.13 kernel from /testing my
> wireless card is recongized but I cannot connect.
> 
> Should I switch to a different distro? If so,
> which one would you recommend? Would it help
> to get a 32 bit Cardbus card instead?
> 
> TIA,
> Shorter Rankin
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:57 -0700, Pervaz Allaudin wrote:
> > I had been trying to get more into Linux over time but am
> having
> > trouble with my new laptop and the Suse 10.1 I have
> installed in dual
> > boot.
> > The wireless does not work. I tried to follow one of the
> earlier
> > emails and downloaded and tried to install intel 3945
> driver but got
> > this error.
> > 
> > WARNING: Your kernel contains ieee80211 symbol
> definitions and you
> >  are not using the kernel's default ieee80211 subsystem
> > and
> > Aborting the build.  You can force the build to continue
> by adding:
> >         IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y
> > 
> > So seems I have the drivers but have run into the famous
> copyright
> > issue. 
> > Should I be doing this or the "NDIS". Could someone
> please point me 
> to
> > some documentation to do this. Is it a very complicated
> install ?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Pervaz Allaudin
> 
> 
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