Hi, please help me figure this out: my wireless pcmcia card, which used to work out of the box on suse 9.1, is not working on suse 9.2. I get an IP address, I can even connect to my wireless router's configuration page, but I can't connect to the internet at all. I tried manually setting the DNS addresses and default gateway but that didn't work. I always get the following error:

ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick linux' returned
Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

How can it not support setting up the nickname? Faulty drivers maybe??
oh, my card is a 3com office connect
thx

The "nickname" does not have much to do with DNS, rather the contents of /etc/resolv.conf do, what is in that file?

with my reugular card I get:

search gateway.2wire.net
nameserver 172.16.0.1

but when I use my wireless card the file is empty

Your symptoms sound similar to what I was experiencing immediately after installing 9.2. It was resolved for me by downing both the ethernet and wireless and then uping the wireless. On my system it is as follows:

As root:

ifdown eth0
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0


The post that I got this from said something about the ethernet overriding the wireless.

thanks for the response but it didn't work for me
Maybe there's a way to skip that step or some other workaround?

please, does anyone have any more suggestions? I'm really starting to lose my mind over this

Hi PF,

I am in the same scenario as you. Have you had any luck? I am just starting to troubleshoot this.

thanks
tophu4u2

nope sorry. I sort of gave up. My best theory was that it was driver related. I found a similar post in another forum and the reply was that driver x.x.x (some version) didn't support iwconfig command and that a new one did support it. So I got the latest atmel driver, but I had some problems with it and I simply couldn't install it. Also, I think suse 9.1 doesn't use that command in its scripts and that is why the card does work with it.