Hi everyone. I hope somebody can help me with a wireless issue.I have a six-yr-old HP Pavilion ze4400 notebook that still works great, but is maxed out at 512 MB of RAM (which is shared with the onboard graphics chipset). So, when I replaced the original 30 GB hdd with a 160, I decided to dual-boot to take advantage of the low hardware-overhead that linux offers.

SO far so good. I ended up chosing openSus 11.2 32-bit, and it works great.. except for my Belkin F5D9010 Wireless G + mimo pcmcia card. The SUSE OS can see the built-in HP/Broadcom 54Mb wireless adapter, but that one cannot utilize any real security, knowing only "open" or "WEP". That's why I bought the Belkin... it gives me WPA2-PSK.

Unfortunately, Belkin hasn't written any Linux drivers for this card... only Windows drivers. That's where you come in. I have searched the net for a linux driver, to no avail. SO I'm hoping that someone will steer me in the right direction. I did find a "wrapper" that claimed it would allow Ubuntu to use Windows drivers for certain wireless cards, but I doubt it will help me, for several reasons.

First, the documentation says nothing about running on any distro other than Ubuntu. Second, while the list of supported devices included a couple of Belkin cards, my F5D9010 was not in that list. And third, the instructions involved editing some OS files to make it all work. And while I have been doing end-user desktop suport since 1990, and can learn anything if given enough time to work on it, I am not at a level of proficiency where I am comfortable with writing scripts or editing system files.

So what I need is either a straightforward, downloadable, plug-n-play option that will let me use my Belkin PCMCIA wireless adapter, or the make and model of a wireless 802.11g adapter (PC or USB... doesn't matter to me) that offers WPA2-PSK and will plug-n-play nicely with OpenSUSE 11.2. Thanks, in advance for any and all assistance. I wil be checking for responses frequently, so plz let me know if I need to provide any additional information to obtain a solution.

First off, it's a cardbus card and not all distros continue to ship with pcmciautils? Can we check for those with

If successful, then the output of that command might illuminate which Linux native drivers would work with the device, if it fails then you need pcmciautils first.