I bought SUSE 9.3 as I was told that it was good for wireless internet connection (which I have). When I installed it there was no KInternet Icon on the lower right of the screen. SUSE found the wireless card but not the wireless network.

How can I remedy this?

Mat

Not sure about this, but isn't kinternet only for dial-up connections? Did you configure your network properly in YaST (IP, nameserver, gateway, etc.)?

I thought that KInternet was for all connection types, I will have a little go on it and let you know.

I just ran through the start up as I thought was normal.

Mat

I played atround with YAST and it found my card but I wasn't too sure how to get SUSE to scan for the network. I see from the groups the wirekess connections and Linux are quite hard to get working correctly.

YAST finds my bluetooth (as does mandriva) but doesn't find the network. What do I need to be doing, I read the admin manual but that didn't really help me.

Mat

There are a couple of tools to find out if your network is working. First, check with 'ifconfig' if your card is configured (you need to be root). Then, you could try 'ping -c 5 localhost' to see if the loopback device is working (it's not you network, but a very basic check). Then try to ping the IP address of your machine (ping -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). After that worked, try to ping your router. This way you might find out, where your connection is broken. You could temporarily shutdown the firewall to see if it blocks transfer. There are more things you could do, e.g. checking the logs in /var/log for network related errors and many more things...

Okay, I'll chec these things out.

According to the user manual I should get a KInternet icon in the right part of my tool bar giving me information on my internet connection. Is there any reason why it isn't there?

Mat

OK, I did ping -c 5 localhost and everything was fine, I did ping -c 5 *IP address* and it came up with network unreachable. Does this help with my problems?

Mat