LinuxQuestions.org - Suse Linux 9.3 Wireless configuration

Hello everyone,

Wondering how to get your wireless connection up and running?

I found a great resource in the linux WLAN project. Just search for an RPM of the WLAN project that matches your distro and architecture. Install it.

Then go into YaST (root) Go to the network card config, and delete all network cards.

Then recreate a new wireless card configuration, and put in your wireless lan settings. Make sure to specify your ESSID. The YaST configuration will take care of the rest of it for you.

Good Luck.

Make sure to bring down eth0 with
# ifconfig eth0 down
then
# iwconfig ethX up ( what ever you set your wireless card eth# as)

then type
#iwconfig

You should see something like this:

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"NAT"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:CF:A7:9E
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=59/100 Signal level=40/100 Noise level=0/0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:350

When you type iwconfig ethX essid "NAT" (Sub. NAT for your ESSID)
It will give you this output if you are successful.

My link quality is 59% signal is 40%