Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 and Suse 9.0 Wireless

[Allan rabenau]

Yes, I've tried to install a DWL-650 and a Linksys wireless card in an
old HP Vectra using RH 9.0, to no avail.  Apparently linux support of
wireless cards (those were both PCI) is really lacking.  XP worked fine
with both.
Al
W3AHR
ahr1 at comcast.net

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 12:42, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Good luck. I tried installing a wireless card said to
> work in linux, the DWL-520 or some such. It was a complete
> fiasco. What I learned, after many hours, was that wireless
> support in linux for PCI cards has a long way to go. The
> really annoying thing was that drivers said to support
> this card didn't. Period.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:06:13PM -0500, Allan rabenau wrote:
> > I have a Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 Laptop on which I am trying to
> > install Suse 9.0.  It already has XP Pro on it.  The install goes well,
> > but I am unable to make the wlan0 device work at all, under Suse.  Under
> > XP, it is recognized and works well.  The on-board ethernet (eth0)
> > facility works well under Suse.  Has anyone out there tried (and been
> > successful) with this configuration?  The device is an Atheros AR500 1X
> > Wireless Network Adapter.  I'm about to give up & purchase a pcmcia
> > wireless card.
> > Al
> > W3AHR
> > ahr1 at comcast.net
> > 
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