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Dell Wireless 1390 WRT54G

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Brian Green

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Nov 17, 2006, 9:57:47 AM11/17/06
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I have a Dell XPS M1710 with a Wireless 1390 WRT54G wireless card that I was hoping to get working with SuSE Linux 10.1.  I found a site that looked promising, but had no luck when I followed the article.  Here's a link
everything worked except the iwconfig command didn't show the wlan0 card.  It would seem there would have to be an easier way to get this working.
 

Birger

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Nov 17, 2006, 3:51:57 PM11/17/06
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I added a netgear WAG311 to my suse10.1, it didn't work by it self
either. I installed ndiswrapper and just read the instructions
included in the package, as I always do (hint)

/usr/share/doc/packages/ndiswrapper/README.SUSE

The thing that you maybe missed was:
(5) Configure the wireless network adapter in YaST, Network Devices,
Network Card. Choose "Other", Device Type = Wireless, Configuration
Name = 0, Module Name = ndiswrapper. Leave the other fields to
their defaults. Configure the wireless settings.

But anyway, I found this card supported by madwifi-0.9.1-1.1 ,
so I installed that and ditched the Microsoft drivers, I will
not have any devil software in my machine.

Madwifi was not on the media (only the SLED10 media) ,
so I added http://madwifi.org/suse/ as install source.

/birre

Brian Green

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Nov 17, 2006, 4:51:36 PM11/17/06
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I have also tried going through YaST to set it up and put the ndiswrapper in the module as you stated.  I referenced this article http://www.novell.com/support/dynamickc.do?externalId=3558227&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=3558227
to get this to try and get this card to work as well.  I cannot get the wlan0 device to show up though. 

Marcus Breiden

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Nov 20, 2006, 5:21:45 AM11/20/06
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:51:36 GMT, Brian Green wrote:

> I cannot get the wlan0 device to show up though.

probably better asked in the opensuse forums as this one is for Suse Linux
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