I have Suse 10.1 running on a Dell Inspiron 1300. I was able to talk to the internet a month or so ago but haven't used my laptop and can't remember what I used to do to activate the wireless card. (I thought I had it in a file but...)

I have a local wireless router and have a fixed IP address and have it running open managed mode for now. (I have it recognising MAC addrs - I may have had a WEP passphrase before..)

Here are the outputs from some of the commands I've found in help files:

>ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
>dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,11/02/2005, 4.10.40.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 217
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:16:cf:09:54:48 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318:1028:0005.5.conf
>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Management min timeout:0us mode:All packets received
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

>iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:C0:49:E3:8A:14
ESSID:"USR8054" << This is correct
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

ifup wlan0 debug
wlan0
SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.
SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ...
SuSEfirewall2: batch committing...
SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set


FINALLY, I try the following to ping my router(192.168.123.254) :

>route add default gateway 192.168.123.254
SIOCADDRT: File exists

>ping 192.168.123.254
PING 192.168.123.254 (192.168.123.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.123.197: icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

Anyone any ideas on what's wrong ?

if your firewall enabled?
I've had issues with wireless when the firewall is enabled on both 10.1 & 10.2

if it is, just as a test disable it, and try again, this may let you connect

then you would at least know where the problem is and can start from there
if your problem is the firewall and you find out how to fix it please post it here as I have yet to have the time to do any real research on the issue