thornberry

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Just wondering if anybody else has had this happen to them.

A bit of background first:
I have been trying out various distros for the last year or so and dumped Windoze entirely about a month ago. My principle problem has always been with the varying wireless capabilities. My only connection to the net is via a local freenet service so wireless networking is absolutely essential.
I have a couple of dongles with the Zydas chipset and a PCI RT2500. Most distros I have tried (about a dozen) like the RT2500 and hate the Zydas. Unfortunately the RT2500 can't pick up the signal outside of the building, so I tended to run the Zydas under WinXP.

Recently I set up a WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT firmware to act as a repeater and this worked excellently. When I flashed I set up a new IP address, user name and password, router name etc. - basically the whole nine yards.
My PcLinux and DreamLinux systems, using KDE and Xfce4, picked up the RT2500 right out of the box and hooked up to my VPN and I was finally free of the poisoned dwarf.

Then I loaded Suse 10.2 64bit.
When I run with Gnome I don't have any problems; although lacking decent monitoring tools, the wireless connection works well (I'm using it to post this.)
When I switch sessions and run KDE I lose the connection.
The Network Manager applet says that it is trying to connect to network "dd-wrt". On investigation I find that KDE has stripped all of my settings off the router and it is now back to the default settings - I have to go in hardwired on eth0 and reset everything. This has happened twice now, so it wasn't some freak accident the first time.

So, what the hell is KDE sending to my router, and why?
The immediate resolution is pretty obvious; don't run KDE.
And I'm only running Suse10 because neither DreamLinux or PclOs will boot from a SATA drive, so I'll be hooking my IDE back up - but I like having a dual-boot system so Suse will be staying for a bit.
Anyway, I think this is pretty weird and I wonder if anyone knows what is going on.