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Pulling My Hair out trying to setup wireless

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi all, I have an old HP desktop with a wireless card installed, worked ok in Ubuntu but when upgraded to 10.04 it didn't like it, so have installed Suse (11.3?) and I can not get the wireless to work. I have followed the stickies: So my adaptor is: Ralink RT2800 802.1h PCI 01:08.0 0280: 1814:0601 from running cetain comands and my kernal driver is rt2860sta. Output from iwlist: administrator@linux-lp55:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan root's password: lo Interface doesn't support scanning. eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning. wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 0 (Distributions)

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