here's my situation. I'm trying to setup my Linksys Wireless WPC11 v1.0 nic to use wireless. I've already got the nic to run in montor mode using the wlan-ng drivers. I'm now curious how I can get it to work in normal mode using iwconfig. The NIC detects fine and I'm able to see it when I type iwconfig as wlan0. When I goto setup options on it using the command: iwconfig wlan0 essid CPB the thing gives me this error:

Error for wireless request "set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Functio not implemented.

What can I do to fix this error and get my wireless nic to work normally? I'm using SuSe 8.2

does this card come with a GUI tool ?

if iwconfig reports that it can't do it for that card, then maybe it can't. I know with the Minitar wireless cards, they only have a GUI tool to configure them with and they don't understand any of the stuff that iwconfig tries to do.