how do you setup wireless on Linux?

Question

to be more specific SUSE 10.1, but really if you can offer a tutorial on any Linux that work to.. I am using a laptop that has the wireless built into it.. ANY help on how to do this AT all.. would be GREATLY appreciated.

Answer 1

Since I doubt your system was made for linux, below is a list of sights were you can idenify the card your using, and what driver will work on linux under ndiswrapper. The ndiswrapper stuff really isn't that hard, if I remember correctly all you need to do after you get it installed is switch to your root user, go to the directory where you have the driver installed, then open a terminal window

type
$ ndiswrapper -i "drivername.inf"
$ ndiswrapper -l (and check if it says hardware present...something of the sort)
$ ndiswrapper -m
$ modprobe ndiswrapper

then you set up your connect using the network manager in SuSe using ndiswrapper as the module name, remember the device you want it to be on is wlan0.

Answer 2

The only thing I hate about Linux is the unavailability of wireless adapters.

I have two computers both running Windows and Linux and is wireless and I can't find drivers for it. It sucks. But since you use SUSE this might help below.

Good Luck.