[Discuss] adventures with suse usb wifi

[stephen hawkes]

Is it a desktop or laptop? I have had limited experience with usb 
wireless, but no success under linux and poor performance under windows.

Is it new? Can you take it back and get a pci card (if it is a desktop) 
or a cardbus/pcmcia one for a laptop (or mini-pci)?

D. S. wrote:
> 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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