I see that Suse9.2 includes extended support for wirless cards. My question is specifically which cards work more or less out of the box. I've tried in the past to get my card(s) to work without success. If anyone has had some out of the box success with Suse 9.2 can you please let the rest of us which card you are using (be specific with manufacturer, model, and any revision numbers)? Any help is much appreciated.

Mike

you should really have this moved to wireless networking, and leave out the SuSE part. Distro doesnt matter in this area....

i think it should be left in suse because he's asking about suse 9.2, and suse 9.2's main highlighted features are better wireless and laptop support.

as for my success, i have a belkin using the atmel chipset and drivers, and it doesnt work (even thought atmel is supported in the kernel))

netgear WG311T and netgear WG511T using madwifi drivers worked fine for me. (On any distro =P ).


DAChristen29, my point was that although SuSE may by default include more wireless drivers or whatnot, it's really distro independent. A card that works on one distro will work on another, unless that distro is very broken. Therefore, it would get more exposure in a forum where people with wireless go, rather than just people with SuSE, and mabye wireless, mabye not. But it's the author's choice =]

ah, i see. ok, i thought he was asking if anyone got the new suse wireless utilities in yast and such to work, not just any distro.

im still working on my card to get it working (havent spent much time on it) so ill try tonight and post back PDQ.

Thanks for the input. I see both of your sides on the issue of moving (or not) the thread. I am actaully really looking to upgrade to Suse 9.2 and I am curious as to which wireless cards work easily with that particular distribution. So far I have tried 2 Dlink cards on Suse 9.0, Fedora 2, and MDK 10/10.1 and have had no success. Thank you both for posting though. I'll keep looking for a card that works with Suse without having to recompile my kernel.

my wireless card worked flawlessly in mandrake 9.0 with the atmel driver installed, before it was built in to the kernel. then in 9.1 it was in the kernel, and i plugged it in and it worked. now with the 2.6 kernels, its not working :-(

i got it detected and showing up as atml0 in iwconfig and ifconfig, and i see wireless activity in kwifi, but as soon as i unplug my ehternet cable, i cant get online. could it be comething not configured with my router?

I have an intel 2200BG. It worked fine right out of the box. Just be sure when installing to select the IPW-Firmware package and it will work right from the start. I was unable to ever get this working in Suse 9.1 so I'm really happy! I also have an Orinoco Gold card which works (big suprise!).

I use SUSE 9.2 and I got my D-LINK DWL-122 usb card to work. I was actually quite easy but took me way too long. In YAST, I installed the km_wlan package. I then went to Network Devices menu and I selected the Network Card Button. This brought up a configuration wizard. It recognized my ethernet card but not my wirless. I selected "Other (Not Detected)" instead. On the next screen, I selected "Wireless" for network card. I hit the "Select From List" button and selected "wireless device using kernel module p80211.o".... "wireless device using kernel module prism2_usb.o" also worked. after clicking next, i configured it to "automatic address setup (via DHCP)". Hit next and entered my ESSID name and was finished. in a console, I used the iwconfig command and found the wlan was working. It was actually really easy if you stick with YAST.

the belkin f5d6020 ver 2 card using the atmel chipset works well in suse 9.2... just be sure to install the firmware from the 'Mobile' packages.

Atheros AR5212 802.11 a/b/g (internal MiniPCI for a laptop) works very well straight out of the box using the ath_pci module surprisingly..

Its a really good card if theres anyone else out there looking to upgrade their internal WiFi

Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection mini PCI + ndiswrapper + WinXP drivers = unreliable + filthy words

I have had success with ndiswrapper in the past so I gave it a whirl. I will try the native Linux drivers (http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/). Here's a post of my issues.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=252347

DLink DWL-G520+ pci wifi card (the one based on the acx111 chipset).

My story is at my wiki

I've just finished installing SuSE 9.2 Pro on my T41 ThinkPad and am pleased to be able to say that the built in Centrino card worked first time after configuration. This was without having to use Ndiswrapper which was the method I used in 9.1.

I used YAST to configure the card, which it found straight away. I was pleased to see that the wired NIC worked in conjunction with the wireless card. I prefer to use wireless and so changed the NIC to be manual and for the wireless to be active at boot.

All in all a very pleasant experience - nice one Novell.

Regards

dkpw

What card do you have? 2100, 2200? B/G? Thanks.