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Wireless Network Card in SuSe Linux

by chit_n_chat Dec 10, 2005 4:11AM PST

I need the wireless network card installed to get the internet but I can't work out how, i've tried something but it needed me to update something via the internet but i couldn't becuase I needed to install the wireless network adaptor to get to the internet. I'd love to learn a bit more about linux but I just can't work out this...

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Is it a "supported" card? Link...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 10, 2005 4:45AM PST

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+wifi+supported+cards

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what kind of system?

by fancyydk Dec 11, 2005 2:32AM PST

well, first of all, you have to make sure that your wifi adapter has a linux driver. You can probably check that from your wifi company website. If you can download the driver, you can just go ahead and install that and everything will be fine. If, however, your wifi adapter is NOT supported in Linux, then there's still a way to get it to work. There's a package called Ndiswrapper. What it does is it lets you use the windows driver in Linux by wrapping it and enabling it to communicate with Linux. You can find out more about it from here:

<a href="http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page" >http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page</a>

I just installed SuSE 10.0 64bit on my laptop too. I had some difficulties cuz 64bit is ususally less friendly than 32bit, but I still got it to work. Oh and by the way, when you ask a question like this, it's a good idea to write your system spec so that other people will know where to begin.

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