[Ilugc] Centrino on SuSE 9.1
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Thu Aug 19 18:41:42 2004
Arvind Kalyan wrote:
Everything works fine, almost out of the box. Except the centrino. I am
able
to detect the card and stuff. Im unable to connect to an access point.
i think you'd have an ipw2200 centrino on most modern pentium M chipsets
i'd suggest that you use the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (free, gpl) or
driverloader ($20 after 30 days free, www.linuxant.com) driver wrappers
and install the windows drivers
It does wep too as far as I can see, and connects me at 802.11g (54
Mbps) - the ipw drivers just do 802.11b
also install the wireless-tools rpm (though suse should have done that
for you as you are associated using a pcmcia card .. stuff like iwconfig
etc ...)
It'll detect the interface as wlan0 - so you might have to create a
separate file setting for wlan0 like eth0 etc (like
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wlan0 in redhat - dunno what its in suse)
Note: the linuxant site has a link to a 16kstacks patch for 2.6 that
you'll need for both ndiswrapper and linuxant - the centrino uses 12k of
stack - you typically have upto 4k tops.
srs
ps - this is typed on an acer travelmate 292 laptop running slackware
10, kernel 2.6.8.1 with the 16kstacks patch, some ACPI patches ...
[still got to configure ACPI properly on this one .. the laptop shipped
with rh9 and a custom 2.4.20 kernel, that wasn't too much to my taste]
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