[Discuss] adventures with suse usb wifi

[D. S.]

Ndiswrapper wasn't my first choice. Setting up a development
environment varies from distro to distro. Some have it all there for
you already, others make you separately install tools, gcc, and needed
libraries before you can compile anything. This was my first time
using the SUSE distro of linux, so doubtless that added to the time it
took. I did pop in some other linux livecd distros in hopes that one
would at least see the wifi device (like they all seemed to find the
bluetooth mouse), but alas, none did.

On 7/21/07, stephen hawkes <sghawkes at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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 ......
> >>
> >> --
> >>    Lionel Widdifield                  [] Spydernet Resources
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> >>    lwiddif-sig at spydernet.com          [] Victoria BC, Canada  V8R 6S4
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