I am running SUSE 10.2 on a DELL C-610 and I have spent over 300 hours trying to configure this wireless card. I was introduced to Linux by Novell coming out to our college where I attend Cisco Academy. I thought the sales pitch was great, and the software seemed straightforward, until I tried to connect to the internet via a Netgear WG511v2 that STILL works in Windows. I have tried MADWIFI untill arms and fingers cramp and eyes shut down. I even got brave enough to taint my system with NDISWRAPPER, but to no evail. I seem to be unable to get past "NO SUCH DEVICE" when I am looking touching and plugging it in !! I have all the latest drivers but nothing, just "NO SUCH DEVICE" returned from any command assiciated with wireless. On my NDISWRAPPER attempts I am unable to locate and copy any "proper drivers" all tries return immproper or invalid driver. There are about 25 different methods I have discovered on my searches, but all to no avail. !HELP!!!

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Find out what chipset it has using this command:It is probably a Marvell chip. If so, you probably will need to use ndiswrapper, as I do not think there is a linux driver that will do it.

In my experience, it is easiest to compile ndiswrapper from source and follow the installation instructions here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

Before you try to install from source, you should recompile your kernel. There is no need to change anything in your kernel configuration, just recompile the kernel, and boot into the recompiled kernel. You will have a much easier time installing ndiswrapper from source if you are running a kernel you compiled.

Some windows INF files that have worked for others are listed here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

I'm sure if you have spent >300 hours on this, you may have seen the stuff already. I've always used Debian-based distributions, so I can't give too much specific advice on Suse. If you ditch Suse and install Ubuntu, I could walk you through the ndiswrapper installation because I did it on my laptop.

I Just wanted to thank this forums members for helping me get the wireless cardbus configured. I ended up buying a Linksys WPC54Gv3 pcmcia cardbus, and it did take quite a bit of tweaking but Praise God I finally have wireless networking on this Dell C-610 Laptop and I find that I just cant stop smilling !!!!!!
I LOVE THIS PENGUIN !!!
I also find that I now need a new project so I will be working on setting this card up on SuSE 10.3 Alpha and see how it goes.
By the way, this Laptop is a TRIPLE BOOT, I have winDOZExpPRO , SuSE-10.2, and SuSE-10.3alpha all working. Again thank you LQ for all
the help.