Greetings All

I see there are several threads about WLAN WNIC's not working with SUSE 10.0. Accourding to SUSE Linux HCL nothing new will and ndicwrapper is not working with most of the cards. Broadcom is not supported in any way by Linux. I spent several days on this issue trying to get SUSE 10.0 to see my Dell 1350 WNIC and it was driving me crazy. The answer was supplied to me. This site was provided to me
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
They have a 30 day trail period to try the driver and make sure it works, No payment info is taken till the 30 days is up. I am currently using it with this Dell 1350 Card and it is working good. I do notice that when I go into the bedroom my connection is slow, unlike when I'm in XP, As long as I am within about 20-30 feet I am OK. you have to have the Windows driver on disk or in a folder to where you can access it when you install the driver for Linux. and you must remove ndiswrapper for it to work. It took me about 30 minutes to get it up and running. One thing I did discover, when it installed it overroad my firewall on Linux and turned it on and I thought I had messed up and was about to start all over, then I checked the firewall settings and that was the problem, I turned off the firewall and I was wireless. I hope this helps some, the driver at the end of 30 days is $19.99 and I hate to pay for a driver, I think drivers should be free, but so far it is the only answer to many cards. Linksys went to Broadcom in its recent chipset so although they use to run on Linux they will not anymore.

Poneyboy

are you running the open version, the eval version, or the full/payed for version. Because i know a lot of drivers included in the eval version are not included in the open version.

This is the Evel version. Believe me I tried everything to get it to work. On Novell site the HCL is so short it is nuts. Then I found a verry indepth Linux HCL and it had red all overr broadcom and that is what linksys went to and that is what all of Dell's cards are now all broadcom chipsets. I e-mailed and spoke with Dell severral times about it and they did come out and say they do not have any hardware made to run on Linux, one tech told me that Linux was spyware that infects XP and I needed to clean my computerr with spyware removers, bright person that. I tried ndiswrapper in everry way, I belong to the Novell SUSE forums and they were totally helpful, but there is a Yahoo list called Linux-Dell-Laptop something to that effect, and that is where I learned about this 1350 card and the link in my first post came from them. The driverr in the link works. I really hated posting it because it sounds like spamming, and I HATE paying for a lously driver but I have no choice in the matter if I want to use my laptop wireless. The biggest thing I hate about it is going justa little distance from the router and it is slow. One would figure if you pay for something it would preform better. If anyone knows a work around or has got ndiswrapper to work with a Dell 1350 please tell me how before my 30 days is up so I can keep my money. I don't know if Novell will expand its HCL for WNIC's but I hope one day hardware companies will began to support Linux more, I think once Vista hits the market and the public sees the price and the fact that therre arer 14 versions and the cheepest one is so lame and useless I think more and more people will amke the switch to Linux, I think Vista will boost Linux to a new high.

i use the fully payed version and here is the Problem desciebed detailled !!!

>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=385872

regards.