Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 and Suse 9.0 Wireless

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I agree with you 10000%. I really detest such solutions. I try never to
use them. Here are the three exceptions:

1. My wife's bank requires that the browser run some windows crap to do
authentication. She won't change banks. Mine uses a little credit card
thing to let me do the same without any software. So I can do banking
from anywhere. She is limited to a Windows PC on which she can install
things.

2. My daughter likes to play the occasional game.

3. I use linuxant's module that lets me load an XP driver for a wireless
network card.

FYI, TI, who make the chipset on the two cards I use, are supposed to
release a Linux driver 'real soon now'. When all that works, I will
switch to that.

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 14:18, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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