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Hello again, For the past two weeks I have been trying to get my computer to connect to my wireless network while running Linux, but it can't detect it. With ...
  1. 05-11-2007 #1
    Codegreen12
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    Yeah, I'm a noob

    Hello again,

    For the past two weeks I have been trying to get my computer to connect to my wireless network while running Linux, but it can't detect it. With my 2Wire router I got a disk which I believe needs to be installed for my computer to go online, however I can't run it without the program wine, and whenever I try and follow instructions on how to get WINE I keep getting "directory not found" in the terminal, soo...

    Can someone please tell me how to install WINE? After about six hours of trying I am getting very frustrated and can't explain problems to normal guides.
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  2. 05-11-2007 #2
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    If you want to download wine on suse through Yast check this page

    Wine - openSUSE
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    Wine is not a panacia for all things Windows. It is doubtful that drivers will work in it.

    What wireless caard do you have??

    I'm sure someone can help you to get it to work.
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    @abhishek- I knew that page was there, I don't know how to install things from repositories, I was looking for an explaination on how.

    @gogalthorp- Not sure if this is the right card but,

    Dell BCM4401 100Base-T DHCP

    SBC DSL is my provider and I am using a 2Wire router. I have tried searching online on what to do, but all have a terminal installation which normally gets me a "no such command" or "directory not found" errors.
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    This will help on installations and setting up repository lists

    Hacking openSUSE 10.2 - Software in Review

    Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE

    Package Sources/10.2 - openSUSE-Community

    and this should help installing the ndiswrapper that allows use of some Windows wireless drivers in Linux

    NDISWRAPPER Setup Information (SuSE 10.x, 32-bit)
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    Thanks for all of the guides, haven't been able to read through them all yet, but have been browsing through the first. It is written for KDE though, and I am using GNOME so it seems that alot of things it's asking me to do aren't available.

    Also, almost everything in the ndiswrapper guide that it asks me to install are either not there or error when I'm trying to install them
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    Should not make a difference This has to do with repositories and that is desktop agnositc. ie it works the same in either.
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