Re: Linux and WLAN Internet access
Alfred Molon wrote:
> I installed Suse on a Thinkpad X31 notebook (used a Suse 9.1 Special
> EditUnfortunatelyy in a magazine).
>
> The installation went surprisingly smooth - even easier than installing
> XP. I gave a first try to Linux in 1998 and have to say that since then
> Linux has made a *HUGE* (can't stress the 'huge' enough) progress in the
> desktop area.
>
> I liked the user interface, but wasn't able to get the Internet
> connection to work. Under XP (installed on another HD) I have Internet
> access through the WLAN card of the notebook, which connects to a D-Link
> WLAN router, which is connected to a DSL line.
>
> Suse Linux should have asked for the password of the WLAN air interface
> (the 104 bit password), but it did not. Clicking on the KInternet icon
> produced an error message saying that either smpppd wasn't started or
> that I was not in the out group or something like that.
>
> Can anybody help ?
>
Hi, I'm using SUSE 9.1 also. It's really working good for me now.
I havnt tried wireless network, but as I know, KDE developed a network tool
to simplify the wifi setting. Unfortunately, I forgot its name, it may be
wifimanager or something else. Hope that will help U a little.
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