Continuous Wifi Hassles - WTF!?
 

Well after wasting 2 days trying to get mandrake 10.1 to see my pcmcia card without the non-existent magical floppy drivers it wants, I finally gave up and went to Suse. It immediatly recognized my stuff and everything was good to go.
I decided to do an internet update via YAST last night and low and behold, now my wireless no longer works. The settings are still the exact same but somehow I lost my connection. I have a solid link light and blinking Wireless light on my gateway but no connection

xbox@DELL-LAPTOP:~> ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (182.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

[1]+ Stopped ping 192.168.1.1

xbox@DELL-LAPTOP:~> ping 192.168.1.254
PING 192.168.1.254 (182.168.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

[1]+ Stopped ping 192.168.1.1

xbox@DELL-LAPTOP:/home/xbox # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions

wlan IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"linksys"
mode:managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:F4:33:1D
Bit Rate:2Mb/s TX-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min Limit:8 RTS:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption Key: off
Link Quality:84/92 Signal level:-42 dBm Noise Level:-98dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


---Help


R/
DrakIE

There's a wireless networking forum here. I recommend using the command line since from the wireless forums I found a lot of the time the GUI doesn't display stuff correctly. Maybe it helps to restart your internet connection.
will first bring it down and then bring it up again. If you didn't set stuff to automatically configure here are some useful commands: