Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

[Collins]

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:19:37 -0500 Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> I duuno, Keith. I am having MOJO problems with SuSe 8.1 as well. It 
> seems it has borken
> just about EVERTHING.
> 
> Example: developeing in AppGen I use an xterm sesssion (Hey no GUI
> for me !!!). 50% of the time
> when exiting Appgen and going BACK to the xterm, xterm goes into a 
> RACE conidtion an gobbles
> up 80%memory and 97% CPU Cycles. I lost ALL of my KDE 3.x settings
> on the standard menu bar,
> and even the "Big K" disappeared.
> 
> My Jpilot and Pilot link stopped working (Connection for the Clie'
> PDA).
> 
> Yast INSISTS that I install Cups and Cups and nothing BUT Cups for 
> printing, even though
> I have a library of LPRng printfilters I use for AppGen. I can not 
> remove ANY of the
> /usr/share/doc/packages documentation (Which is NOW over 1.2GB), 
> without YAST
> complaining I have borken all my packages and crapping out.
> 
> Gesss ... maybe time to try SCO UnitedLinux Beta 2 ...
> 
> kbb0927 at cs.com wrote:
> > Hello All
> > 
> > Has anyone gotten a simple Linksys WPC11 card to work 'out of the
> > box' in SuSE 8.1 using the standard setup unde yast2 lan?  I
> > installed SuSE 8.1(fresh) on my laptop which ran (sometimes
> > intermittently) a wireless Linksys WPC11 card under 8.0 with
> > tweaking manually. 8.1 comes with a gui to set this up during
> > installation, but it fails to work. Pcmcia is recognizing the card
> > correctly and all the right modules are being installed. But it
> > complains that it fails to find an interface for the card on
> > booting or using rcnetwork restart.
> > 
> > Can anyone shed some light or offer some help?
> > 

>     "Software is like Sex, it is better when it's free" - Linus
>     Torvalds
> 

Well, I could recommend the very stable (oops, everyone else thinks
it's bleeding edge) solution in my signature.  

I don't know anything about appgen, but gentoo does have ebuilds for
lprng, if you prefer that to cups (several cups releases are badly
borken).  I've never used lprng, but I do have a working cups.

The only bleeding edge aspect to this system is plugins.  The usual
netscape/mozilla plugins haven't caught up with gcc 3.2 yet.  Some
users have reported a successful workaround that requires getting and
compiling the sun java sources, but I haven't tried that.

I presume that xterm works, but I normally use aterm. 

kde 3.x and gnome 2 are about as stable as these behemoths ever
get.  I use xfce or icewm.

There are a lot of postings and gentoo doco about pmcia.  Some have
success; some have problems.  I don't have a laptop.  It seems to me
that laptop anything is still pretty much a crap shoot on most
distros.

Good luck.

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