[Cialug] SUSE 10.1

Tim Wilson tim_linux at wilson-home.com
Tue Jul 25 21:07:22 CDT 2006


I have a Netgear WG511v2 which uses the Marvell chipset.  If your card
uses that, you might  have to resort to NDIS Wrapper.  I still haven't
successfully got that to work, but everything I see says you have to
use NDIS with Marvell.

On 7/25/06, Carl Olsen <carl-olsen at mchsi.com> wrote:
> I'm not having much luck with my wireless network card.  It looks like its
> there, but when I try to do an iwlist eth0 scan on it, it says it doesn't
> support scanning.  I'm not sure if I'm seeing the Ethernet adapter or the
> wireless adapter.  I'm guessing it's the Ethernet adapter I'm seeing and
> that the wireless adapter is still invisible to the system.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
> Of Dan Schlichting
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:40 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] SUSE 10.1
>
> Suse used to have  a bug in how it built lilo.  Spaces in the choices will
> do
> that. If you change the names in the lilo file that might solve your
> problem.
>
> Dan
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:55:30 -0500, Carl Olsen wrote
> > I installed SUSE 10.1 from CDs I burned from their website last
> > night.  It does not like NTFS Windows partitions at all.  I kept
> > getting error messages until I used FDISK from a Windows 98 floppy
> > disk to remove all the partitions.  After that, everything went
> > smooth.  The next step is to get my wireless network card working -
> >  NetGear WG311T Wireless PCI.  A Google search turned up something
> > called "madwifi" so I'm going to try that.
> >
> > Carl Olsen
> > http://www.carl-olsen.com/
> >
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Tim


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