Ok, on my laptop.... during boot the onboard ethernet card trys to load dhcp, but fails since its not plugged in. Then the wireless pcmcia trys to load and it says, HOTPLUG then suse continues to load.. then the pcmcia loads and my wireless card starts to flash a steady flash like its looking for something to connect to. I have gone into the network device under yast and set it up as dhcp and with 192.168.1.20 with no luck... the card just does its constant steady flash.

What am I missing? Am I supposed to run a program, restart something, edit something ??

Thanks....

Have you tested your current setup with windows?

At work I found out my PCMCIA card will flash constantly if it is set to 10Mb (and not work). My Hub is 100Mbit only so 10Mbit fails.

You might check the cards config and the access points' config... I'm not up to date on the wireless so I can't help you much there.

Hi...thanks for you help.

Yes if works perfectly with windows... encrytion, spoofing, the whole nine yards...

I have turned off the encrytion for now for these troubleshooting issues.

idea:

Have you configured your options file? (I think thats it)
/etc/options
and included:
alias eth0 [driver name]
alias eth1 [driver name]

I don't know if this is the problem... possibly the second NIC isn't being loaded or is missing something... What does 'ifconfig' show (or ifconfig -all)

Can you disable the onboard NIC in bios? (don't know if that will help in Linux either) - just to see what happens

What do you see in your iwconfig for the pcmcia card ?

Does it show the name of the access point, my wireless flashes if it cannot find an access point.

Another test would be to boot without the pcmcia and put it in once booting has finished and the hotplug service is running. I had problems with a Compaq laptop not being able to hotplug until I excluded an IRQ in the pcmcia opts file.

Hope that helps