Help!!! Need help configuring a wireless card on suse 9.1 personal with a Netgear MA521 wireless card. I have tried to get wireless to work for several weeks now with no luck. Here's what I've tried so far: Initially I thought the card would be autodected, and it was recognized but there was no "link light" on the card and I couldn't connect to the net.
I then did some google searches and tried to get my windows xp driver to work using Linuxant's driverloader. I used the web configurator and a driver that I downloaded off of Netgear's website and everything seemed to install properly but when I did iwconfig I did not have an IP address and still there were no "link lights".
I finally tried to use ndiswrapper. I found an rpm for version .10 but no rpms for version .12 or later, and .12 was the version that was suggested to work with the netgear driver. Unfortunately ndiswrapper version .10 didn't work I got a "hardware present" message but when I modprobed, the network card would not respond. I tried to compile version .12 but I got an error with make when it was trying to compile usb.c, the error was "usb.c line 543: error: structure has no member named 'act_altsetting'". Now I am all out of ideas. If there are any linux gurus out there I would really appreciate some help. I really don't want to go back to windoze! I would even be willing to buy another wireless card if I am sure that it will work with suse 9.1 personal right out of the box. Any suggestions will help. Thanks!
