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Did you check openSUSE and Freespires hardware compatibility list to make sure they are supported? http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/HCL_Wifi http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware

This topic is a bit old, but maybe this will help. I was able to get my Netgear WG111T working on an old compaq running Xubuntu by doing the following: You should first download and install ndiswrapper on your boxes, I'll leave it to you to find the right packages for your distributions. Can't be of much help there because I haven't used OpenSUSE or Freespire much. (I use Fedora) You can just download the right ndiswrapper package (distribution specific package or a tarball) on another computer and transfer it to the two linux boxes with a usb stick. Then you need to get the windows drivers for you Netgear WG111T, which should be found on the cd you got with it, or else I'm sure you'll find them somehwere on the internet. You'll need netwg111.inf and athfmwdl.inf. You put those two somewhere in a directory on the linux boxes. Then you cd to the directory where you put those two driver files (for example /home/foo/Downloads/) and do the following (I found this on a site and copied it when I installed my Netgear. I wanted to just give you the link but I can't find the site anymore so I'll just write it down here) (I find it easier to just log in as the root user and do the following steps, I tend to not use sudo for safety reasons. If you log in as root you can just leave out the sudo parts in the following commands.) --- Driver installation: sudo ndiswrapper -i netwg111.inf sudo ndiswrapper -i athfmwdl.inf --- Checking if they are installed: sudo ndiswrapper -l --- Take out the dongle and re-plug it in sudo ndiswrapper -l --- The netwg111 should report "Hardware detected" now sudo modprobe ndiswrapper --- The light should start flashing --- To boot it as module: sudo ndiswrapper -m --- Checking if dongle works. You should see some info about your dongle sudo iwconfig wlan0 --- Checking for Wireless Access Point. You should see some info about your AP sudo iwlist wlan0 scan I was able to connect to the internet after following these steps. I hope it works for you too.

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