I have Suse 10.1 installed on a laptop which has a WPC54G v4 wireless card in it. I can get it installed using ndiswrapper and it even connects through knetwork manager. However I cannot browse the internet or anything even though it says it has connected in the network manager.

The steps I have taken to get this far are;
1. ndiswrapper -i <my wireless driver>
2. ndiswrapper -l output: wlipnds driver installed, hardware present.
3. Open yaste and set up the card. Putting ndiswrapper as the module. I had to give it a static IP address at this point as using dhcp has not been able to connect.
4. Connect using knetwork manager and giving it my wep key.

This all works fine and connects to the network but why can I still not use the internet?

Other outputs;
# iwlist wlan0 scan
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:F5:FC:E6:B9
ESSID: "CootesWirelessNet"
Protocol: IEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency: 2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality: 0/100 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates: 1Mb/s; 2Mb/s; 5.5M/s; 11Mb/s; 18Mb/s; 24Mb/s; 36Mb/s; 54Mb/s; 6Mb/s; 9Mb/s; 12Mb/s; 48Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions

sit0 no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEE 802.11g ESSID:"CootesWirelessNet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 Ghz Access Point: 00:11:F5:FC:E6:B9
Bit Rate: 48 Mb/s
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Management: off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal Level:-58 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

# dhclient wlan0
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:12:17:24:a6:c8
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:12:17:24:a6:c8
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
DHCPDDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS recieved.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.



Any help would be appreciated, i've been trying to get this goig for 3 days and have been all over the net plus these forums for information.

Your card is showing that the network key is off. Try and then checking the card again.

Thanks for the reply. I have ran the command but it has not changed the config and didn't bring up any error either.

I tried iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed key s:<myKey>
and also tried it in two parts iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed and then iwconfig key s:<myKey>

All commands ran without error but did not change any settings?

I have since figured out that this problem is nothing to do with linux. This problem seems to happen with this wireless card in windows as well as linux and so appears to be an incompatibility with hardware somewhere along the line. I will probably buy a different wireless adaptor!