Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

[kbb0927@cs.com]

Guys,

Can we get back on subject here. I started this thread asking about
help/experience with the built-in wireless setup under SuSE 8.1 and
it has digressed to cups vs lprng.

Could people please offer suggestions about wireless. Again, I have
got the card recognized, symlinked to eth-pcmcia-0, but it doesn't
see the WAP. I will keep trying and post a "How I did it" once/if I
get it going.

Best Regards,

Keith B.
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

>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.
>
>-- 
>Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? - Code Python
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