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Linux Wireless

  • 25-10-2006 10:14PM
    #1
    fguinan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭


    Hey - i'm shopping for a wireless card for my suse10.1 box and was looking for reccomendations on any perticular brands to get or aviod. I want one with native linux support i.e. no ndiswrapper!!!!
    Thanks
    F


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  • #2
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Theres a load of info here, once you find a card that works, its usually straightforward enough to setup using YaST.


  • #3
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    fguinan wrote:
    Hey - i'm shopping for a wireless card for my suse10.1 box and was looking for reccomendations on any perticular brands to get or aviod. I want one with native linux support i.e. no ndiswrapper!!!!
    Thanks
    F

    Avoid anything with a broadcom chipset in it. I don't tend to play around with full PCI wireless cards but on my laptops i have replaced any Broadcom mini-pci cards with Intel ones, does the trick (as long as ye don't mind the fact they use a binary firmware)


  • #4
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    was a pain in the neck on Kubuntu actually. The KDE Wireless manager kept saying the connection failed, until I assigned my own IP instead of using DHCP and set up the DNS servers manually


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Any tips on WPA in ubuntu ?


  • #6
    henbane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭henbane


    I managed to get my linksys card working using ndiswrapper. It tends to need reloading whenever I update the system but otherwise it works fine.


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  • #7
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    Any tips on WPA in ubuntu ?

    theres a package you have to get to use WPA in Linux I think. Search the ubuntuforums.org as it will be already answered there.


  • #8
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Jakkass wrote:
    theres a package you have to get to use WPA in Linux I think. Search the ubuntuforums.org as it will be already answered there.

    You need to install wpa-supplicant. Also if you install NetworkManager and have it running as a default service with an applet in Gnome it can handle things such as WEP/WPA authentication.

    Note: I only used that in fedora i've never done any playing around with ubuntu


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