[Discuss] adventures with suse usb wifi

[stephen hawkes]

Yep, or choose a distro that includes it.

I am not a fan of ndiswrapper, it has cause big problems for me before 
and was very unreliable. If at all possible go for a native driver.

How long could it take to set up a dev env? There must be a package or 
meta package for that. In ubuntu the DLing took longer than the finding 
the packages.

D. S. wrote:
> 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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