[Discuss] adventures with suse usb wifi

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:50:08PM -0700, D. S. wrote:
> I finally got wifi on SUSE 10 to work on my friend's PC, after
> considerable effort.
> 
> We first tried his D-Link WUA-2340 wireless USB Wifi.  To make a long
> story short, SUSE didn't see it or set it up, so I downloaded Win32
> drivers for it from the D-Link site, and tried ndiswrapper.
> Ndiswrapper loaded, and appeared to load the driver, but the driver
> never initialized and no wlan0 wireless interface appeared with
> iwconfig.


D-Link WUA-2340 uses a ralink rt73 chipset which has native Linux drivers.

Download rt73 source
cd rt73
make install
modprobe rt73
iwconfig rausb0 essid ......

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