SUSE 8.0 Wireless issues, Finegan?
 

Went out and bought SUE 8.0 to support the open source effort and IMHO it's not as good as Redhat 7.93 Beta! I was able to get Redhat up by installing the wireless tools package, added hermes.conf and dhcpcd eth1. Now in SUSE I have installed wireless tools, pcmcia is already installed and I added hermes.conf and nothing happens. The only support I have found at SUSEs' site is
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/pcmcia_wavelan.html
which didn't work. I have tried ifconfig and iwconfig but all get is thateither eth1 doesn't exist or there are no wireless extensions at eth1. This is for my brand new Dell Inspiron 1gig PIII M 256MB RAM 40 gig 8x burner 64 (!)MB ATI 7500 videocard. Pretty sweet laptop. I recommend it and Redhat 7.93 Forgot to mention that this a DLINK DWL-650 Intersil clone, Finegan?

Beep and a Bonk?
 

I haven't had a chance to try SuSe out on a laptop yet aside from a brief flirtation with a LiveEval joke a few months back so I don't know how well they've doinked up there /etc/pcmcia dir and all of the things that come along with it.

I assume with the Intersil clone, dlink makes a really good prism card for a change, compared to the Linksys headaches... that you're trying to get orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes to load. First off, make certain that SuSe even has those bloody modules pre-compiled for you. I hope they're not that daft. A simple:

locate orinoco_cs.o

should turn something up in /lib/modules/2.4.??/blah/blah/blah

Also, check the tail of "dmesg" and see what kind of feedback you get from card insertion.

I hope they just didn't give you the modules, because they're easy to get compiled and running... actually if that's the problem, they're here. I've gotten the newest, .11a to compile on RH7.2 a lot lately, so SuSe shouldn't be a problem.

Also, let's assume that pcmcia is working just fine... the hermes.conf file gets sourced on cardmgr's read of the dir because of a line at the end of /etc/pcmcia/config that tells it to also source any file ending in .conf, and should look like:

# Include configuration files for add-on drivers

source ./*.conf

# Include local configuration settings

source ./config.opts

Maybe, just maybe SuSe doesn't have that... the distros have been doing wonky stuff with pcmcia now that the hardware work is in the kernel and the configs are largely up to them. I miss David Hinds's pcmcia-cs being so solidly on the ball.

Well, that's a start. Also, just out of curiosity, what version of wireless tools is 8.0 running? It would be at the end of the man page for any of them...

Cheers,

Finegan