We have a German exchange student for a fortnight. Nice, quiet, polite creature, who is taking full advantage of technology to avoid England, and speaking English. She spends a couple of hours a day IMing, in German, her friends at home; and most of the rest of the time here in her room if she has to be in our house at all. She does not read books, in any language, which must make this house a little strange since she is sleeping in the only room (except the shower) that does not have a bookshelf in it. That’s because it’s too small.<\/p>\n\n
What it does, normally, have is the backup computer, plugged into an ethernet cable, and running linux where the fan won’t disturb anyone. That is now in this office, switched off, becasue the fan disturbs me. I want it in the cellar, where there is a power point and perfectly good wifi reception. So I bought a wifi card, and put it in. At this point I am perfectly stuck. The card works in windows, and is recognised and correctly by Suse 9.1. But, like our exchange student, it lurks all silent, talking to the router outside, and not to the box in which it finds itself.<\/p>\n\n
I am completely at a loss, because everything you can google assumes a kind of basic understanding that I have not got. I can’t discover how you tell it that such and such a card corresponds to such and such an interface. How does it know that the main network card is eth0? Why won’t it recognise the wireless card as wlan0?<\/p>\n\n
It’s a long shot but if there is any reader to whom these questions make sense, would they make themselves known? It’s Suse Linux 9.1 and a dlink 520+ card.<\/p>\n\n
I do know that in the last resort I can take it down to the cellar, plug everything in, boot it into windows, get everything working, and then unplug the keyboard and monitor. That might give me backups. But I wouldn’t have remote access.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have a German exchange student for a fortnight. Nice, quiet, polite creature, who is taking full advantage of technology to avoid England, and speaking English. She spends a couple of hours a day IMing, in German, her friends at … Continue reading