I have (i think) NDISwrapper working , but when i run the command dhclient wlan0
the output i have got is displayed below
(command iwconfig-a displays)
linux-qzyt:/home/fedexpress # iwconfig -a
-a No such device
Does it means i have to get the drivers first for OPENSuse11




linux-qzyt:/home/fedexpress # dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
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All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1e:58:b3:07:52
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1e:58:b3:07:52
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.


any quick suggestions

I'd say the card is not being detected or the driver isn't loaded.

What is the output of ifconfig?

Also, if you want much help you'll have to list wireless NIC type.

You might want to use the search function -------->

But, from memory, I think you have to bring the wlan0 up: "ifconfig wlan0 up". To bring it up and give it an address is "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1 up" I think. You should be able to see wlan0 included in the response to "ifconfig" (no "-a"). You should probably be able to see a list of routers with "iwlist wlan0 scan".

Try those commands, but do a search on "ndiswrapper suse" and see if you can get some more targeted threads that will help. I know that there are already lots of threads here about ndiswrapper.

Try "iwconfig wlan0" or just iwconfig, there is no "-a" option, at least according to the man page for iwconfig on my system. When I want to manually configure a wireless connection for a managed network with a dhcp server, I use these steps: (as root or with sudo, and my wireless interface is eth1, substitute wlan0 or whatever is appropriate)

ifconfig eth1 down
iwconfig eth1 mode managed essid "YourNameHere"
ifconfig eth1 up
dhclient eth1

I have found that the ifconfig statements are not necessary on my system, using an Intel Pro Wirelss 2200BG card with the ipw2200 driver, but from what I've read, may be required by some other wireless drivers.