Seriously, WTF?
I decided to try using ndiswrapper to get my wireless working on my openSUSE 10.2 machine. Pain in the ...
It works, but for some god-forsaken reason it thinks the wireless card is an ethernet card and shows it as eth1 vs. wlan0.
To install the driver and use ndiswrapper I followed this gents page. Very nice page, excellent info, but it doesn't say one thing about having to reboot your computer to have it recognize your wireless card (which of course is true in my case). You should be able to just modprobe ndiswrapper as far as I understand. WTF. Then I followed some other helpful fellow's instructions on using bcm43xx-fwcutter in order to get my Broadcom wireless card to show up as wlan0 -- no dice. I even blacklisted bcm43xx in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (I think that's it) as another gent had mentioned still to no avail!
OpenSUSE vs. Broadcom -- Broadcom wins. OpenSUSE got in some excellent blows by being able to actually connect to the net, but Broadcom dominated the battle by never submitting to wlan0. Hope you didn't have money riding on that fight.
Whatever...
I'm so tired of screwing with it that as long as I have wireless I don't care. As far as I'm concerned I win.
The transitive property: a=b=c so a=c. My version:
Linux working = Not using MS Windows which = MS doesn't get my Money
so...
Linux working = No money for MS
Hooray for Linux. Job well done.
