[Discuss] adventures with suse usb wifi

[D. S.]

Ah ha... so, all I had to do was set up a complete SUSE development
system with the compiler and libraries, chase down the right libraries
and header files, chase down the linux driver source code
(experimental?), compile, and then hope it works?  I might have been
done in mere minutes, darn.

On 7/21/07, Lionel Widdifield <lwiddif-vlug at nexus.spydernet.com> wrote:
> 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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