Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 and Suse 9.0 Wireless

[Joel Hammer]

I did not use the linuxant approach.

After using things like wine and crossover, I decided no
more. I have found it's just too much trouble to install
and maintain such software. If I have to spend more time
and trouble to use linux, why use linux?

<whine>For example, I used to run wine on a server to allow users to
     run windows software from linux boxes. It worked, but it cost
     money, since I had to pay for windows as well as wine, it took
     a lot of my time to configure it, and it was never as good as a
     native installation of windows, especially with hardware issues,
     and it ran slow.  Nobody was happy with it, and it eventually,
     after a couple of years, degraded and stopped working. I suppose
     I needed to upgrade wine but that wasn't going to happen. Now,
     my windows users use windows computers, and everybody's happy. I
     am still trying to remember why I thought wine was a good idea.
</whine>

If there isn't a native linux solution, I'll just wait.

Joel


On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:42, 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.
> 
> linuxant.com did not work? That sounds very odd as their solution loads
> the original XP drivers that come with the card. I use it with a PCI and
> a PCMCIA card with no trouble at all. One on Gentoo and one on SUSE 9.
> 
> Cards used here with no trouble (via linuxant.com): DWL-520+ and
> DWL-650+. The 'non +' versions of these cards are even more likely to
> work.
> 
> > 
> > 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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