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Article #1016Re: Linux and WLAN Internet access
From: Kevin
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:56
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:56
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Alfred Molon wrote: > I installed Suse on a Thinkpad X31 notebook (used a Suse 9.1 Special > EditUnfortunatelyy in a magazine). > > The installation went surprisingly smooth - even easier than installing > XP. I gave a first try to Linux in 1998 and have to say that since then > Linux has made a *HUGE* (can't stress the 'huge' enough) progress in the > desktop area. > > I liked the user interface, but wasn't able to get the Internet > connection to work. Under XP (installed on another HD) I have Internet > access through the WLAN card of the notebook, which connects to a D-Link > WLAN router, which is connected to a DSL line. > > Suse Linux should have asked for the password of the WLAN air interface > (the 104 bit password), but it did not. Clicking on the KInternet icon > produced an error message saying that either smpppd wasn't started or > that I was not in the out group or something like that. > > Can anybody help ? > Hi, I'm using SUSE 9.1 also. It's really working good for me now. I havnt tried wireless network, but as I know, KDE developed a network tool to simplify the wifi setting. Unfortunately, I forgot its name, it may be wifimanager or something else. Hope that will help U a little.
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