Linux Laptops

[Timothy J. Finucane]

Bob,

I did try the Linuxant "driver/wrappers" but I also had problems with
them on Suse. I did use Suse 8.2 and 9.0 prior to using 9.1. I could not
get the built in wireless to work on any of them. The built in wireless
is a USB Prism 2 and I read plenty of articles by people who were able
to get them to work, but I had no luck. After many headaches I bought
O'Reilly's new Lnux Unwired book and found my solution. The resolution
to the problem was investing in a good Orinoco Gold Card. It was well
worth the investment because it worked immediately using the Yast2
network card configuration. No headaches! I've been happily wireless
ever since.

Tim Finucane

-- 
“Those who would trade liberty in exchange for some degree of security
end up with neither liberty, nor security.”    —Benjamin Franklin



On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 19:41, Advent Systems wrote:
> Tim,
> I have a compaq 2596 w/Suse 8.2 on it and was wondering:
> 1.) Have you tried the Linuxant "driver/wrappers" for your wireless?  I 
> used them with Mandrake and they worked GREAT but with Suse 8.2 I'm 
> having a lot of problems.
> 2.) Did you use Suse 8.2 prior to using 9.1?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob Randal
> 
> Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
> 
> >I'm using an Averatec 3150HW and the only thing that did not work well
> >with Linux was the built in wireless. I'm using Suse 9.1 on it.
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >  
> >