Shoot me SUSE
12-19-2005, 03:51 PM
Hey,
As you may have surmised from my extremely conspicuous title, I need help installing a wireless card on an old Dell Latitude. By the way, I feel it necessary to mention that I am EXTREMELY new to linux, I just installed it this saturday for the first time ever. When I inserted the card before booting, It didn't detect it at all (I also had a 3Com "LAN PC Card" that it picked up right away). I tried to manually add it to the list, but to no avail. Then after searching on this forum, I found a few solutions, but they didn't work too well. The one that I found best suited to my needs was the ndiswrapper program, which would adapt a windows driver to work with linux. Using ndiswrapper's Wiki list, i found a listing similar to my situation, and he indicated a Dell driver that seemed to work with the chipset. My card is a Belkin Wireless 802.11g Notebook card (#F5D7011). 1. Part of the problem is installing ndiswrapper. I understand you have to do this using command line, and i've only installed stuff straight out of a package. 2. I also have doubts about being able to configure the internet/network settings of the system. I tried to hook up to my router directly using the PC LAN card which had an ethernet adapter, and even then, it wouldn't connect to the internet. So, err yeah...I would appreciate some help. I'm sorry if it's really obvious or something, but the first few steps into a new OS are always the toughest.
Thanks,
Mike.
edit: oh, and as you might have deduced from my username, I'm running the SUSE 10.0 distribution
As you may have surmised from my extremely conspicuous title, I need help installing a wireless card on an old Dell Latitude. By the way, I feel it necessary to mention that I am EXTREMELY new to linux, I just installed it this saturday for the first time ever. When I inserted the card before booting, It didn't detect it at all (I also had a 3Com "LAN PC Card" that it picked up right away). I tried to manually add it to the list, but to no avail. Then after searching on this forum, I found a few solutions, but they didn't work too well. The one that I found best suited to my needs was the ndiswrapper program, which would adapt a windows driver to work with linux. Using ndiswrapper's Wiki list, i found a listing similar to my situation, and he indicated a Dell driver that seemed to work with the chipset. My card is a Belkin Wireless 802.11g Notebook card (#F5D7011). 1. Part of the problem is installing ndiswrapper. I understand you have to do this using command line, and i've only installed stuff straight out of a package. 2. I also have doubts about being able to configure the internet/network settings of the system. I tried to hook up to my router directly using the PC LAN card which had an ethernet adapter, and even then, it wouldn't connect to the internet. So, err yeah...I would appreciate some help. I'm sorry if it's really obvious or something, but the first few steps into a new OS are always the toughest.
Thanks,
Mike.
edit: oh, and as you might have deduced from my username, I'm running the SUSE 10.0 distribution