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Is it possible? A while back, I tried it and got an error while trying to make NDISwrapper. In Mandrake, I had no such problem. But I like SuSE more...
Can NDIS be used for wireless PCI network cards in SuSE 9.2? If so, can someone be willing to help me through the setup?
Yeah, first you gotta install ndiswrapper from yast.
Then you need to google and fine the windows driver for your lan card. in my case it was a Trendnet driver. My driver came in a larger package. I unziped it, found the windowsXP.
I then opened up konsole. typed su to take me to root. typed my password. I typed in this:
ndiswrapper -i TNET1130.INF
Where tnet1130.inf is the location of my driver.
ndiswrapper -l will list the drivers installed and you can check to make sure it's properly installed.
then you type modprobe ndiswrapper to make it active. then you have to take down your ethernet.
ifdown eth0
then
dhcpcd wlan0 will find an ip address for you
then
ifup wlan0 will make your wireless card the means suse uses to get the net.
Well, everything I needed to install is done. But now when I try to install the .inf for the driver, I get "bcmwl5 invalid driver!"
And it is the correct driver as I was usuing it in Mandrake.
Any ideas?
As far as your driver goes, Azigor, did you use the driver off the CD, or off their website? From the looks of it, you're using a Broadcom chipset, and those are kind of flaky. Try using the driver off of your CD.
Fraid not. My dad was tired of waiting for me to get it going (he isn't all that great with Linux) so he just orderd Windows and had me put it on there ;( ...
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