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Old 03-30-2005, 04:40 PM   #1
adrianfoot
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Dell Inspiron 9100 - wireless card - Suse 9.2 Pro


Hello everyone,

I recently purchased a copy of Suse Linux 9.2 as it was advertised as having particularly good wireless and bluetooth support. Unfortunately I installed it to discover that it, in fact, didn't support my card - no drivers were in the list for it and Dell don't have any drivers.

I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 machine and the wireless card, reported by Windows, is the Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN card...I heard a rumour that this is in fact a Broadcom card?

I have since uninstalled Linux but wish to have another attempt at getting it on - dual booting - with the wireless card working (this is how I access the internet).

Any help on this would be appreciated...as a Linux newbie I don't even know where to start for finding drivers and how to install them...

Many thanks in advance!

Ady
 
Old 03-30-2005, 07:12 PM   #2
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If the laptop you bought came with a windows driver cd, you have the driver you need. You'll need to look up the ndiswrapper howto for suse 9.2 and follow the directions.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...essional%209.2
 
  


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