WLAN problems

Hello, there.
I've got an internet connection at home for some days, but I seem to be
too silly to use it correctly. Apart from this personal problem, that I
hope to solve with a little help later on, it seems that I have a WLAN
router on my desktop which doesn't seem to work.
On my tiny eeePC laptop the connection is no problem, but I'd like to
know if someone could name a WLAN router of some brand that he or she
got working with openSuSE 10.3 and what tuning must be done to get it
working.

To put it short: Please tell me what router I should buy and it how I
can get it to work with openSuSE, preferrably version 10.3

Thank a lot in advance, Martin


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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:26:01 GMT
martin92 <martin92@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello, there.
> I've got an internet connection at home for some days, but I seem to
> be too silly to use it correctly. Apart from this personal problem,
> that I hope to solve with a little help later on, it seems that I
> have a WLAN router on my desktop which doesn't seem to work.
> On my tiny eeePC laptop the connection is no problem, but I'd like to
> know if someone could name a WLAN router of some brand that he or she
> got working with openSuSE 10.3 and what tuning must be done to get it
> working.
> 
> To put it short: Please tell me what router I should buy and it how I
> can get it to work with openSuSE, preferrably version 10.3
> 
> Thank a lot in advance, Martin
> 
> 
Hi
I use a Linksys WRT54G are you having trouble configuring the wireless
part of your router? What brand and model?

If you have the wireless card working on your opensuse machine and a
working wireless router it's won't matter what brand...

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Hello, there.

The router is a D-Link DI524, and it works with my tine ASUS eeePC
wireless. That doesn't seem to be a problem. But I want my Desktop,
which is working with openSuSE 10.3 (recently updated through the
internet via ethernet cable), to get going wireless.
So I bought a WLAN antenna with a USB connection for the Desktop, but
that antenna never showed any sign of activity with its LED. As the
antenna is some no-name product, I thought someone could tell me, which
WLAN adapter with USB connection was working. Some friend told me I
probably have to change some scripts too, to get it working. Maybe that
would even work with the antenna I got, but if someone has a positive
experience with some model, I am ready to buy a new WLAN antenna --- I
just am afraid that I would not get it to work, if I don't now where to
modify which file.
When booting, the computer showed something like "MARVEL (...) wireless
(...)", so it may be recognizing the antenna after all. But in YaST2 I
got confused by entries like DSL, Modems, Infrared (the latter with an
antenna symbol).
I just don't know how to get the Desktop to recognize the WLAN signal
with its USB connected antenna.

Martin


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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:26:01 GMT
martin92 <martin92@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello, there.
> 
> The router is a D-Link DI524, and it works with my tine ASUS eeePC
> wireless. That doesn't seem to be a problem. But I want my Desktop,
> which is working with openSuSE 10.3 (recently updated through the
> internet via ethernet cable), to get going wireless.
> So I bought a WLAN antenna with a USB connection for the Desktop, but
> that antenna never showed any sign of activity with its LED. As the
> antenna is some no-name product, I thought someone could tell me,
> which WLAN adapter with USB connection was working. Some friend told
> me I probably have to change some scripts too, to get it working.
> Maybe that would even work with the antenna I got, but if someone has
> a positive experience with some model, I am ready to buy a new WLAN
> antenna --- I just am afraid that I would not get it to work, if I
> don't now where to modify which file.
> When booting, the computer showed something like "MARVEL (...)
> wireless (...)", so it may be recognizing the antenna after all. But
> in YaST2 I got confused by entries like DSL, Modems, Infrared (the
> latter with an antenna symbol).
> I just don't know how to get the Desktop to recognize the WLAN signal
> with its USB connected antenna.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
Hi
In Yast it's the 'Network Card' you need to look under.

Have a look here, there is also a link to ndiswrapper which you may
have to use.

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_%28Wireless%29

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Thanks, Malcolm. I'll give it a try.
Martin


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