[lwlan-user] ZoomAir 4001 on SuSE 8.0/8.1 - How?

[Rainer Hantsch]

Hello!

Since more than 1 1/2 years I have some ZoomAir 4001 WLAN cards. They are
based on a PRISM-1 Chip and support 2 MBit/s. I got them very cheap and I
thought it will be easy to get them working, but since then, I never had
success. Now I tried it again with SuSE 8.0, but it still not works. The card
insertion is detected, but no driver installed.

I guess that SuSE 8.0 should already have a wlan driver for PRISM-1 inside, so
I have the silent hope that I will not have to build my own drivers. Maybe,
there is only something to add to a config file to make the card working with
default SuSE drivers, this will be my preference before any odyssee of
compiling new drivers/kernels.

Please: Is somebody here who can lead me through the install process? I am an
absolute newcomer to wlan and have therefore absolutely no experience with it.
Maybe one has already written down the whole process in a fool-proof
step-by-step description?

Please, be so kind and help. Now, after more than 1 year, I would like to get
this working, weather is too fine to sit indoors instead with a laptop in the
garden... ;-)


mfg

  Ing. Rainer Hantsch