[ale] No Wirless on Suse

Pervaz Allaudin pervaza at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 31 18:11:52 EDT 2007


Did you try adding IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y ?  What was the result?
-Matt

No I did not - Afraid it would cause some unwanted side affect.
Maybe I should gie it a try?
Pervaz

On 3/30/07, Pervaz Allaudin <pervaza at yahoo.com> 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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