Trying to get Suse pro 9.2 "with built in support for WPA" to actually connect me to my wireless access point (wap) has turned out to be a real disapointment.

The built in support turned out to be wpa_supplicant and ndis_wrapper. The same stuff some have been using for quite some time regardless of distro. None of them installed during setup, even though I specified the use of wpa on my wireless card during install. Not a clue where given to the fact that further configuration and tinkering where needed. Not very user friendly.

This is of course not really a problem for experienced users of Linux, but it goes to show that marketing can set expectations on a level that guarantees customer disapointment.

Edited...

I finally got it working, partly to luck, partly to getting some clarifying answers rearding the use of madwifi/ndiswrapper.