(From the berlios website)
Linux Distributions
SuSE 8.2
This distribution contains driver version 0.8. If you've updated to 0.9 or 0.10 and want to use hotplug to handle driver insertion/removal, be sure to replace the entry at76c503 by

at76c503-rfmd at76c503-rfmd-acc at76c503-i3861 at76c503-i3863
in the variable HOTPLUG_USB_NET_MODULES.

Furthermore you cannot configure your device inside yast. You must manually create a /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0.


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I have two computers, both with a usb port and mandrake 9.1 or suse 8.2 ... if i could get this to work on suse i'd owe you one huge favor lol

Wait a minute, how in the world can you have mandrake 9.1 installed without that directory? I have it on a desktop machine that doesn't even have pcmcia slots. What's going on?

i tried that on suse but i got so fed up with mandrake because it keeps locking up that i didnt even get that far

sorry for the confusion

i gotta go but i'll be back tommorow around late afternoon

see i have the free edition of mandrake 9.1 and my graphics card doesnt work and i payed 220$ (thats alot for me..) my system keeps locking up for no reason and all this stuff that i really dont care for.. in other words the reliabilty of suse compared to mandrake for me is almost priceless lol
(take note my parents bought a copy of the pro version for themselves and it works perfect on thier computer but they sorta had me in mind when they got it..)

so anyways im out
thanks for all your help your really doing me a big favor here
:-)

roger that,
go with suse then, it will be an adventure, the berlios drivers will work for you, I'm sure of it. Sadly, I don't have a clue about where to tell suse about network/wireless settings, so that part is on you, just remember, don't try to iwconfig this device until you give it an ip address.

Okay. I successfully got rid of mandrake and installed slackware in its place on one of my computers (i thought this would be a good alternative to mandrake that you said worked for some other users). I downloaded the berlios driver (version 10) and compiled it with make,make install alright. Now i was curios of what to do next, because the iwconfig tool doesn't say anything about infrastructure modes in its man pages and i'm not sure how to find out my channel. I believe it was six a while ago when i was using windows 98 but i'm not sure if it could change or not. I also i don't know how to give iwconfig a IP address.
Any help please ?
thanks again,
mike

Hey,
Unless you or someone intentionally changed the channel, it should still be the same. First, you've got to see if the driver is loaded with lsmod, if it's not then you've got to use modprobe <drivername> to load it, once you see it listed in lsmod, then do ifconfig -a, this should show it's device name, eth0, or maybe wlan0, we'll use eth0 as it's name for now. Then do ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1, this gives it a temporary ip address. Then do iwconfig eth0 mode managed channel 6 rate 11M key off essid any, if you have a wep key, use it in place of "off".

i saw it loaded like in the readme file for the driver and that seemed ok (unless the values between the two text strings were supposed to be the exact same as the ones they had..? w/e ) but its wierd because i did ifconfig -a and it didn't list wlan0 or aynthing else.

So, lsmod shows at76c503-something loaded, but you have nothing besides "lo" listed on ifconfig -a?

yep

iwconfig shows wlan0 though (with ad-hoc, frequencies n all that)

Ok, so far so good. Next:
1. ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1
2. iwconfig wlan0 mode managed rate 11M essid any
3. ping -c 4 <ip address of your router, like 192.168.1.1>
4. dhcpcd -d wlan0
5. ifconfig wlan0, see if ip address is right

going to dinner, back in a few...

Well, i'm happy to say i got my internet goin on slackware.
I found the magic command for me was dhcpcd -d wlan0
My internet wouldn't connect on startup untill i added that command along with the iwconfig and ifconfig in /etc/rc.d/rc.local file

My next job's to get my NVidia GeForce4 Ti42000 to do 3d :-)

THANKS AKABEAVIS I OWE YOU ALOT FOR ALL THE TIME AND HELP YOU'VE GIVEN ME!

for real tho u did do me a big favor so now i owe u one too

thanks

Cool, glad you got that bugger working
Are you running Slack 9.0 or 9.1?