[KLUG Members] Getting our Compaq laptop on wireless

[Brock Inglehart]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:06 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > On another thread, Bruce Smith said he had used an "ndiswrapper" to get
> > his laptop to work on wireless.  We have a Compaq 64 bit that won't work
> > on wireless with either Suse 9.1 or 9.2.  Would this be a good thing for
> > us to try to solve this problem?  We seem to have most other hardware
> > issues resolved.
> > This ndis thing was suggested as a fix from the Suselinux E list/serv
> > when I posed the question out there.
> > The wireless works on Windows, (dual boot) so we know it works.
> > Bruce, is this a bear to install?
> 
> It was a real pain the first time I tried to install it.  (pre SuSE)
> Since then it's gotten much easier, but still takes some manual work.
> 
> SuSE comes with the ndiswrapper software (RPM).  Install it.
> You will also need some files from the Windows side.
> (it is a "wrapper" around the Windows NDIS network driver, so
> you will need those DLL files - see ndiswrapper instructions).
> 
> Next find the home page of ndiswrapper and follow the instructions.
> See how far you get.  That the best I can remember off the top of
> my head without actually reading the instructions again myself.
> 
>  - BS

I did install it from the disc.  Then what........
I looked in the help/user guide for instructions and can't find.  Didn't
see any other instructions in Yast.  Where else do I look?  I can't find
it in the start menu so I can't launch it.
Brock
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