Hey, I have it working. I can connect and all is well. However, I am having a bizarre problem. After about 10-15 minutes of browsing using mozilla firefox, I am unable to browse. It just stops. I am still connected, as I am still logged into WoW and am able to communicate with its servers. What is the problem?

Have you tried checking on whether your whole connection with firefox dies or whether it is just DNS? Try narrowing it down when it stops next time by going to the IP address of a site like google(72.14.203.99) directly, and if it works, but you cannot browse by URL, it is just DNS which stops. As WOW and other games and software tend to use IP addresses rather than URLs, that is probably the case.
Does knoquerer or another browser do the same thing, or is it exclusive to firefox?

It appears that it is just the DNS. The problem started again, and i browsed to http://72.14.203.99, and I got right to google. When I browsed to www.google.com firefox got stuck at Looking up www.google.com.

Any easy cure for this?

It probably means your card + router or your settings + router are not happy with each other. The short, and permanant fix(unless you change ISPs) is to hardset the DNS servers from your modem into the settings for your card. Primary and Secondary as Name Servers 1 and 2 in your card's settings. This way, your computer never has to look to DHCP for DNS, just your IP addy, which sticks for the default setting, which is probably renewed either once per day, or once per week. DNS however, don't stick so well, they refresh far too often, which is everytime there is a lapse in connection between lookups. Which for most users... is constantly. So, That is how I would go about it, and in fact do constantly, because that way pages load faster, especially initial lookups, because you don't have to get the DHCP to give you DNS servers first, it is instant. It also will set them forever, no renewal, so you never get dropped over constant connections as with many providers(including Qwest, mine).

Though, there may be ways to fix your DHCP, if that is your interest. But I am afraid I cannot help with that, mostly because I am a newb, and not so good with DHCP, as I have not gotten it to work stably on any distro I have tried.

Ok, I agree with what you are saying, but im not sure if it will work. I have a wireless network I use at home (this is a laptop in question here), and there is another wireless network that I use at school. Both have different DNSes. How can i set it up for both home + school? Also, how do i set that up at all? You see, I am also a noob.

Actually, you can set up multile connections in the settings manager for SuSE. Or with Kwifimanager or your wireless tool of choice. This way both home and school can have a whole profile to auto connect you based on SSID, which will also take care of WEP settings for you. Or you can use whichever set of DNS is "better" or "faster", or just pick one, to use for both.

Hey,

I have Kwifimanager but it doesn't seem to work... is there another place or way to set a default dns?