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Hello, I just installed opensues on my computer and it works fine, however, I cant get my wireless network to work. I have a netgear wg311 card on my desktop and I cant find it. can anyone help me solve this problem? Thanks!

Wow, can't believe it! Just today I got my wireless card up and running quite nicely. Better yet, I HAVE a netgear wg311 (v2), AND I run opensuse 11. To get it to work (at least for me) you must have another computer to use the internet to download files, unless the computer in question can do that. Once available, download: http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/WG311.asp (and pick the appropriate driver) AND http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz?modtime=1211931005&big_mirror=0 After that, install ndiswrapper the usual tarball way: Go to the directory where the tarball is: [b]cd (wherever)[/b] Extract the contents: [b]tar -xvf (whatever the name of the tarball is).tar.bz[/b] Then make it!!! (login as root) [b]su (and then put in your root password)[/b] [b]cd (directory where it extracted to)[/b] [b]make[/b] [b]make install[/b] Now, ndiswrapper is installed! To configure it, unzip the contents of your appropriate driver, and in it, there should be a folder called "Driver" Open that, and open "Windows XP", and move all of the files in there to a file on your desktop, you can name it anything. In these files should be included a .inf file and a .sys file, as well as a few .bin files, and perhaps some others. Go into shell again, and again go into root (using [b]su[/b]) Run: [b]ndiswrapper -i (directory to your .inf file, such as /home/user/Desktop/driversfile/blahblah.inf)[/b] After that, run: [b]ndiswrapper -l[/b] this will show if the configuration worked or not.If all is well, it should display a message along the lines of "Driver Installed, Hardware Present" Then just activate it: [b]modprobe ndiswrapper[/b] And then restart your network: [b]rcnetwork restart[/b] Hopefully this will resolve your issues. At this point, the proper drivers are installed, but now it all has to do with the YaST configuration. If you have problems with that, just say so, I will be happy to help you there. [Modified by: wolf1oo on July 01, 2008 05:16 AM]