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SuSE upgrade + wireless support
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| Trent Buck 2005-01-01, 5:45 pm |
| Up spake Scott Wertz:
> Any recommendations on how to (or whether to) upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2?
> I'm looking forward to the improved wireless support of my laptop, but I'm
> not sure what the consequences will be if I just slap a new CD in it...
First of all, you'll need to know what chipset the wireless card uses.
If a linux driver hasn't been reverse-engineered for it, then upgrading
SuSE won't make any difference.
Presumably the wireless card is CardBus (PCMCIA). I don't know how to
probe that. If it's built-in, it's probably on the PCI bus. Use lspci
to probe for PCI devices.
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-trent
The only truly safe `embedded system' is the system that has an axe
embedded in it... -- Tanuki
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| David Everly 2005-01-01, 5:45 pm |
| Trent Buck wrote:
> Up spake Scott Wertz:
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> First of all, you'll need to know what chipset the wireless card uses.
> If a linux driver hasn't been reverse-engineered for it, then upgrading
> SuSE won't make any difference.
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> Presumably the wireless card is CardBus (PCMCIA). I don't know how to
> probe that. If it's built-in, it's probably on the PCI bus. Use lspci
> to probe for PCI devices.
>
David Everly wrote:
I've recently upgraded from SuSe Pro 9.1 to SuSe Pro 9.2 on several
computers, two of which are laptops and the wireless won't work out of the
box. The vast majority of wireless cards on the market (especially 802.11g)
don't work without a lot of configuring. I'm in the processes of
configuring a Netgear WG511 (g) on my AMD64 laptop and it's a painstaking
process. Linux is behind on true wireless functionality right out of the
box. If I were you I wouldn't upgrade only for the wireless.
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