I installed Suse 9.1(free one) on my old IBM thinkpad and it worked great with my Linksys Wirelss pcmia Card WPC11 ver. 3 But after i updated all the updates from suse my wirless doesnt work anymore. Is there some updates i should avoid? Suse still recognizes my card properly. Its is all setup. I reinstalled and restarted it many times? still not working. Any suggestions. Is there a better card out there?

If you upgraded the kernel, you probably have to recompile your wireless drivers. They are kernel modules and only work with the kernel that they were compiled against.

I think there's a bug in the susconfig update.

Try:

echo "WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'" >> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-bus-pcmcia

That worked for me!

I spent almost the whole day fixing the wireless network after updating the packages using YAST2. After updating, the network looked fine (meaning that I could see the interface in ifconfig output and the routing table looked fine), but I could not connect to any other box, even my wireless router. I did not change anything except for updating.


Before I almost gave up, I happened to remove all the network configurations initially configured by YAST2->Networ Devices->Network card. So there is "Nothing configured" in the "Network cards configuration" window. So, there should be NO ifcfg-wlan* or ifcfg-eth* under /etc/sysconfig/networks/.

The only things I did next were editing /etc/wlan/wlan.conf (to add the ESSID), making a wlancfg-ESSID file, and modifying /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to use dhcp or static ip address (I use static ipaddress).

I then unplugged and plugged the wireless card. Guess what, everything worked. Actually, this was not a big surprise, I used to do the same thing for Mandrake Linux. I just started using SUSE a few days back and thought the network configuration tool of Suse might do a better job (it was until I performed update).

Good luck to all of you with Linksys wpc v.3 cards.

Chad