I've searched messages on this list, and haven't seen a solution to this yet.
I've got a Dell lnspiron 8500, with the Dell TrueMobile 1300 wireless card. Under Win XP, and Suse 10.1 or 10.2 a long time ago using ndiswrapper, the wireless card works. My wireless network uses WPA2-Personal, AES. I've just installed openSuse 10.3 (32-bit). Following the install, the wireless would not connect. I saw in the install notes that if the network uses a non-broadcast ESSID, I may need to remove the intel wireless driver installed by default, and the other will install automatically. n my system neither of those intel drivers was installed by default. As my wireless card is Broadcom, not Intel, I guessed that was why neither was installed, and also guessed neither will work for me. Nevertheless, I tried each, one at a time, and neither one worked. After that, I removed those drivers (so far, all through YAST), and then added Ndiswrapper, again through Yast. Following the directions on the openSuse Ndiswrapper page, I tried installing the Win XP drivers for the Dell wireless card, to be used by Ndiswrapper. First, I tried using the driver found at the Ndiswrapper compatibility page. When that failed to work, I removed it (ndiswrapper -e), and tried using the driver supplied on Dell's webpage. (ndiswrapper -i) So far, I've still got no network connection. No errors, but no connection either. I've been following the instructions on a couple of pages: * http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper * http://www.opensuse.computerlanguages.org/ndiswrapper.php As an aside, I now have a few more options on the boot menu than I did before I started this attempt to get the wireless working. The various options are which kernel to boot in to, is that correct? My list includes: * XEN -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.5-31 * XEN -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.5-31 * openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.5-31 * Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.5-31 * openSUSE 10.3 * openSUSE 10.3 (Failsafe) "openSUSE 10.3" is the default selection. I'm curious about the various choices, what distinguishes them, etc... - I suspect this is a separate question and should have it's own thread, but the various choices only appeared after I started performing the actions in the previously mentioned webpages, trying to get the wireless to work, so I thought there might be relevance to the main question. Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
