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Linux assistance with wireless networking

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I'm down here in GA for the week, and Squire_SCA convinced me to install SuSE 9.2 on my laptop to see if I wanted to install it on my desktop. Everything went well, except the wireless networking. For the life of me I couldn't get it working after about 8 hours.

Has anyone had any experience with Linux and wireless networking? Preferrably with SuSE.
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My experience with Linux and wireless networking has been terrible. I'm still trying to get it to work on Red Hat 9.

Here are some resources I have found though:
http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/M ... COnRedHat9
http://www.tuxroxx.net/index.php?page=e ... ow-To.html

Not sure if they will help though.
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I would not worry about it. Install it to your desktop and get it running, and in the near future there will be a new driver or a kernel update that adds new functionality so that you can install it to your laptop.
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SquireSCA wrote:I would not worry about it. Install it to your desktop and get it running, and in the near future there will be a new driver or a kernel update that adds new functionality so that you can install it to your laptop.
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I would worry about it because my desktop is only connected to the internet wirelessly. I'm sure I will get it working eventually, but I was hoping that someone here could give me a head start.
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Maybe something here???? the second topic had something to do with linux trying to boot into the ethernet rather than the wireless.
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index ... owforum=26
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index ... topic=8710
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Thanks, I saw that SuSE had a wireless forum and I had started to read that. I also found this, so I will check all this out.

Hopefully they have this figured out before I beat Half-Life 2 when I plan to reinstall my desktop. :)
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