Ok, I've installed Suse 10.0 just fine, it works and what not, I can surf the net through the built in ethernet port (not the wifi one).

Now I have 2 problems:

1: I cannot get the wifi card started at all (its an intel pro 2200 b/g internal card), I've tried several of the tutorials and other posts, but none of them worked (I did an 'ifconfig' and it came back with the listings for eth0 and lo but not wlan0). Can someone tell me what I need to do or configure to get this to work?

2: I have a bluetooth mouse by iogear, it works in winxp just fine, and I've looked at the other posts that attempt to deal with bluetooth mice, but I don't think none of those would work. The adapter is a built in one (I believe it's the TrueMobile 300 Dell bluetooth adapter) and none of what I read talked about that.

Thanks for any links/help/etc that you can send my way =)

Art

Hi,

I too stuggled with wireless on my Dell D800 laptop, but after many painful hours of ifup, ifdown, ifshakeitallabout, I managed to get things working with help from this really good article from andrewd18 -
NDISwrapper Setup Information (SuSE 10.x)

The gist of it for me was to forget looking for a generic driver and use the Windows driver via ndiswrapper.

A couple of pointers though that I found;

In the section "Preparing for Installation" it says to uninstall any existing installation of ndiswrapper and use the latest version from sourceforge.net, however, the later version did not work for me and I ended up going back to YaST and intalling the version that came on my SUSE 10 DVD (courtesy of those nice chaps at Linux Format mag!).

Once I had the driver installed, I had to use "modprobe [driver name]" to actully fire up the adapter, but other than that it works a treat.

Unfortunately I don't have Bluetooth on my Dell, so I can't help there, but hopefully this info should help to answer half of your problem.

r3g
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