Hi
I've installed suse 10.1 64 tonight on my HP dv5000 laptop. I performed the online update during install and i'm now running 2.6.16.21-0.21-default on an AMD Turion 64.
My wireless card's a Broadcom BCM4318 airforce 1 54g that's built in and the light for it is always on regardless of there being a driver loaded or not.
I've downloaded the stable version of ndiswrapper along with a 64 bit driver from Broadcom.
The ndiswrapper install seemed fine as did the driver [it reported that the driver and hardware are present] From there I added the card through yast and the network manager now shows my network. When I click the network, I can put my wpa key in and it shows a box saying configuring device - 28% and goes no further. If I wait, the box disappears and network manager says disconnected.
Another thing is that when I boot up, I have to modprobe ndiswrapper so my network shows up.
My router [which i'm using at the moment wired] is configured with wpa psk.
I've obviously missed something in the config but it seems so near to connecting.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Did any of that make sense? hope so, I'm a noob!

I had the same problem when I installed SuSE 10.1 64 on my Gateway 7510gx. The network manger that comes in the ISO doesn't work very well.
If you do update the kernel and network manager to the latest version, this problem should go away (you will have to reinstall ndiswrapper if you do a kernel update).
To avoid the hassle of having of modeprobe ndiswrapper each time you boot, you can just edit /etc/init.d/boot.local and insert the line
modprobe ndiswrapper

To get your wifi to actually work, just kill the networkmanager (right click and quit) and in super user mode type
#ifconfig wlan0 up
#iwconfig wlan0 essid yourwifinetworkname
#dhcpcd wlan0

Thanks.
I'll give that a try tomorrow [getting late now] and post back what happens