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

[Dave Addison]

Tom Faraday wrote:
> 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)?
Hi Tom,

I'm running Suse here. If it's any use I can try to compile the module with the 
latest update kernel and email the compiled version to you.

Which version of Suse are you running and with which kernel?

Dave
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