noob to linux wireless question
 

I am having a hard time getting my internal dell trumobile wireless card working with Suse 9.2. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600m. The card is a Dell Trumobile 1400 mini dual wlan card.

I have followed the tutorial for setting up ndiswrapper.
My problem is that I do not use wireless at home.
I use it at work to tie into the company Lan, and at my friends house to play ut2004.
I have not had problems linking with same card in XPlode to my work or my friends AP's.
With windows the AP is there I click a button and it's connected.

I ran - iwlist wlan0 scanning at my friends house and it spit out this.

wlan0 scan completed
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:50:38:6C:31 (Belkin AP)
ESSID: "Batman"
Protocol: IEEE 802.11b
Mode: Managed
Frequency: 2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality: 0/100 Signal level: -46 dBm Noise Level: -256 dBm
Encryption key off
Bit Rate: 1Mb/s
Bit Rate: 2Mb/s
Bit Rate: 5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 11Mb/s
Bit Rate: 18Mb/s
Bit Rate: 24Mb/s
Bit Rate: 36Mb/s
Bit Rate: 54Mb/s
Bit Rate: 62Mb/s
Bit Rate: 55.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 14.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 59.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 62Mb/s
Bit Rate: 55.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 14.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 59.5Mb/s
Extra: bcn_int=100
(I had to type this because I can not connect the laptop from home.)
I am still putting off working on the winmodem setup.

Now my question is - With the information above what are the steps to connect to this AP?

I did:
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid Batman
ifup wlan0
I pinged google.com and it gave me an error message.

Any help is appreciated.

Again, I am a :newbie: to this.
I apologize if the answer to this is already posted here. If so I missed it.
Any good wireless tutorial would be helpful also.
Thanks,
Blair

Check the output of iwconfig to see if it's picking up the essid and mode parameters correctly. If it's not try putting them in again. I find that often iwconfig does not pick up my essid correctly at first try.
Once your connection is configured correctly, you could try;

# dhcpcd wlan0
or
# dhclient wlan0
depending on which you have installed and assuming that you use dhcp to connect.

post the output of iwconfig if you have any probs

Cheers

Thanks.
I will post back tonight how I make out.

Blair