I have a fresh install of openSuSE 10.1 on my Dell which has an Intel PRO Wireless 3945abg card that I can NOT for the life of me get to work with the network manager.

I know that the installed kernel and drivers are compatible with the card because I have it working with ifup however this is a PIA because every time I hit another wireless network I have to manually reconfigure the ESSID and KEY from the command line.

I tired the KDE wireless tool and it seemed to work so I am thinking that this is just a config issue with Gnome.

The weird thing is if I remove the ifcfg-xxx file from /etc/sysconfig/network/ and tell Yast to use network manager then the SSIDs will show in the network managers window, but will never connect. As soon as I switch to ifup and do the two iwconfig and dhclient calls I have wireless.

Where are the config files for gnome's network manager stored?
Also does anyone know if SuSE make any significant changes that could be causing my problem?
Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.
Andrew.

I have the same pro/wirelesses 3945abg in my notebook and although the distro recongnized it. iwconfig see no wlan0 and niether does ifconfig.

Please let me know what you did to get to where you currently are.

Please

Michael

I found out today that you have to load the ipw3945d from the six option disc for our card.

I would like to know if you are using ifup, knetworkmanger, kwifimanager, wpa_gui or hand config?

Michael

Go to YAST and to the Software Management area. Search on "wireless" and you will find a unloaded file called "ipw-firmware". Load it and if every thing else is correct, you will be up and running.

My Wireless card came up as eth1 and not wlan0, do not know why.

Please let me know if this helps...

Michael