ALI VT6102 Rhine-II - Help Wireless Install

[silkmaze]

My laptop is a Acer Aspire 1355LCi. I have just installed Suse 10.0 on it and would like to use the built-in wireless card. It has two network cards:

Realtek RTL8180L and
ALI VT6102 Rhine-II

I use the Realtek to access the internet via a cat 5 cable. I am not sure how to install the drivers for the ALI.

I called Suse support and the tech there said that I need to use ndiswrapper and IPW2100.INF file that I would find on the windows CD's that came with the Laptop. I have looked and looked and done searches on all 3 CD's and haven't found that file or any file that starts with IPW and ends with INF.

When I looked using google, I only found the sourceforge site for the linux IPW2100 file, the same applied to the Intel site, where I also looked.

Now I am confused.

Do I use ndiswrapper and the Windows Realtek driver (this is the one I use for a hardline access to the internet) or do I use ndiswrapper with IPW2100 even though it is a linux driver or do I just install the IPW2100 driver without ndiswrapper.

Don't worry about writing in german. I speak and read German quite well, I just can't write it very well.

Thanks.

 

[linuxstevie]

First of all the information you got from the Suse support ich correct.
You have to use the Windows driver for the ndiswarpper insatllation.
If you have a dual boot installation you can find the driver in the winddows/system32 directory (Use the search function)
If you don't have such installation the driver is been packed on the CD that comes with your laptob.
Please do not use any user drivers (No realtek or users)
Sometimes it might be helpful

 

[silkmaze]

My laptop has only Suse 10.0. I checked all the CD's that I got with it, there were no *.inf files for the Realtek or the VT6102 cards.

Should I look for the file on a Windows XP cd?

Thanks.