[Gloucs] Re: gloucs Digest, Vol 67, Issue 1 - suse and wireless

[Tom Faraday]

Hi,

Thanks for that Guy your right,

Im talking about one Victorian cotswold stone house 
which is about 30ft tall, their aren't any stone walls 
to go through just thick ceilings and the large height 
to deal with (i want to go from top to bottom idealy 
but could stick the box on the middle floor (of three))
I have looked into this and  have seen all the popular 
offerings from Netgear/3Com/Belkin etc. Currently there 
is a product available from an american company,

Westell Versalink 54g which is on 
www.broadbandstore.co.uk

Apart from this i know of the new Belkin super long 
range set up but that is also super expensive.
Compatibility wise im none the wiser apart from the 
fact that on the suse blurb it says something about 
improved wireless support.

Maximum budget would be 200ish for a router, 2 PCI/USB 
and a PCMICA for the laptop. 

Im interested to see if anyone has any experience in 
this field and can tell me what the best long range, 
linux compatible, stable, good quality and valu for 
money set up would be?

Ow and after looking around I found this with relation 
to the graphics card

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/286990

I attempted to follow the instructions on the suse ftp 
link, to compile the new graphics card kernel module 
(perhaps a bit ambitious for a 1 day old newbie) and 
everything was good until I had to go into init3 and 
update sax (point 4 or 5 on the README i think). I then 
got and error telling me that the profile file in the 
new driver folder was corrupt and their was an error at 
line 970 (or some line like that, im at a different pc 
now, if it is important ill dig it out of the logs)?

The only thing I missed on the instruction was to 
update the kernel source package through the online 
update as this was a 70mb file and would take ages over 
a 26kbps connection.

Can i just try the whole thing over? As i have already 
ran the two rpm's it tells me to download.

If any of you wonderful people can help with any of 
these points I will be very grateful.

Thanks,
Tom