Wifi on SuSE 10.1

[Ben Francom]

On 9/20/06, Carl Parrish <lists at pcl-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> Okay I just installed SuSE 10.1 on a friends Gateway laptop. Everything
> more or less went smooth except I can't get his wireless card working.
> This is a dual boot laptop on the MS side everything is okay and when I
> use an ethernet cable everything is all right but when I try going
> wireless its dead. YaST says its a Gateway 2000 88E8038 PCI-E Fast
> Ethernet Controller. I don't know if he has a seperate wireless
> controller or not. but like I said it works in MS and this is all that
> YaST sees. Any ideas?



I had a hard time getting things working with a wired connection.  I had to
use the "traditional" method with "ifup."  But I was able to get the
wireless working with the Network Manager at a hotel the other day.
Have you tried both ways in YAST?
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