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Article #87Re: HOWTO: Adding cheap wifi to your linux box
From: houghi
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:28
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:28
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["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.suse.] The Etobian wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:19:47 +0100, Paulo Rocha ><paulorocha@megamail.pt> wrote: > >>Gregory Toomey wrote: >> >>> SuSE 9.1 >>> - its trivial; all has been done for you in the default install. >> >>It's even more trivial to go to YaST2 and configure the wireless network >>connection there... >>Why do people tend to teach Linux the hard way? > > Because they may have already purchased an incompatible wifi nic, and > either need to do it the hard way to make it work, or use another > card. That would naturlly be stated if that was the case, otherswise it would go like this: >>>>>>>>>> How do you install wifi >>>>>>>>> with Yast >>>>>>>> I tried that >>>>>>> What did happen >>>>>> It did not work >>>>>Dit it gave an error? >>>>Yes >>>>Wich one? >>>It is not supported. >>What card do you have? >A XXYYZZ. OK. Then try this .... Instead of what should then happen: > I tried installing my XXYYZZ card with Yast and it told me it was not > supported. I have no idea how to proceed. Ok. Then try this .... -- http://www.houghi.org | | _) \ \ \ /\ \ \ /\ \ \ / \ _ \ | | _` | \ | _ \ _|_` | \_/\_/ \_/\_/ \_/\_/_)_| _|\___/\_,_|\__, |_| _|_|_)\___/_|\__, | My experience with SUSE. ____/ ____/
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