BT voyager 1060 wireless adapter and SUSE 9.2

[geoffDeGeoffGeoff]

I cant get it to work.
Has anybody managed to?

[dylunio]

Can you give more information, like is it PCI, usb, PC card adapter?
Waht have you tried so far?

dylunio

[geoffDeGeoffGeoff]

It is a pcmcia card in a Sony Vaio laptop.
I tried using Yast and configuring the card as 'other not specified' but this did not work.
The LED lights on the card also look very dim when I boot up Linux compared to when it functions under xp.
Ta

[mdk10.1newb]

Have you tried driverloader?I managed to get it started but not able to completely configure with my router

[mdk10.1newb]

Used driverloader and it works on Mandrake 10.1on laptop-- BT voyager 1060 and can be configured throught the mandrake linux control center. Good luck

[Mclarenvj]

I cant get it to work.
Has anybody managed to?

I cant get it to work it to work either

my adapter lights are really really weak too compared to windows xp

[Mclarenvj]

Can you give more information, like is it PCI, usb, PC card adapter?
Waht have you tried so far?

dylunio

My 1 is a pci card

i have tried yast but nothing comes up
Im new to suse linux as i used to have windows xp and it worked fine
the software that came with the network card is only for windows. so im stuck there.

[bigtomrodney]

I believe this card hass an Atheros chipset. This means you have two choices - install the MadWifi packages which will provide a semi-offical native driver, or use ndiswrapper. I have three Atheros based cards and I have to say after years of swearing by MadWifi I find ndiswrapper much easier. If you don't mind using the command line it will take you all of sixty seconds.

su -
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/file.ini
ndiswrapper -m

You can then configure it using YaST as a normal network card. If it works you can then go about having the kernel module probed at boot - try this Sysconfig Ndiswrapper

If you are having problems though I would recommend upgrading to at least SuSE 9.3, but if you can wait a week or two 10.1 will be available. I don't think a lot of the wireless packages were available in 9.2.

[Mclarenvj]

I believe this card hass an Atheros chipset. This means you have two choices - install the MadWifi packages which will provide a semi-offical native driver, or use ndiswrapper. I have three Atheros based cards and I have to say after years of swearing by MadWifi I find ndiswrapper much easier. If you don't mind using the command line it will take you all of sixty seconds.

su -
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/file.ini
ndiswrapper -m

You can then configure it using YaST as a normal network card. If it works you can then go about having the kernel module probed at boot - try this [url=http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Suse_Professional_9.x#Making_sure_it_works_on_boot]Sysconfig Ndiswrapper[/code]

If you are having problems though I would recommend upgrading to at least SuSE 9.3, but if you can wait a week or two 10.1 will be available. I don't think a lot of the wireless packages were available in 9.2.

how do u actually get to the command line???

[bigtomrodney]

You can just use Konsole if you are in KDE, other terminals are xterm, gterm. You should find them under system > terminals on the K menu (with the suse lizard on it).