Hi,

This is a follow up on my previous post on same topic.

when I try to do a 'route del *' I get :

Makefile: Host name lookup failure


& 'route add -net 192.168.0.0 dev wlan0 gives me

"SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument".

I still am not able to ping my router which is 192.168.0.3...I do get an IP address for the wireless card as 192.168.0.103 using DHCP...

Could any one help..?

Thanks,

Sreeni

from the errors perhaps the driver is not working properly or misconfiguration.

http://www.linuxant.com has support for that card, free to try for 30 days and under $20 for a permanent license.

I cannot offer technical assitance, but I strongly feel that the manufacturers of wirelesss networking gear need to offer drivers that are compatible with Linux distributions.
I've spent over 30 hours searching for a site that lists PCMCIA cards that work flawlessly with wireless networking for Linux. Any distribution. I'm sure that wireless networking isn't new. I challenge someone with skills far greater than my own to create drivers/ hardware/ etc, that work as flawlessly as they do on Windows. This is the last hurdle for me to switch to windows full time. Can someone focus on just this problem (it is a problem) and fix it once and for all. I don't think I'm alone when I say that 10 or more lengthy steps are not acceptable to setup wireless networking. Please reply. What are the most significant challenges to this issue?

A problem I've had with wireless in SuSE is that you need to shut down other network interfaces you may have up. SuSE gets confused.
So, if you have, eg eth0, you should
ifdown eth0
then reinitialize the wireless card
/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
(I hope that's a pcmcia card you have!)
finally, you will need to make sure that the firewall is targetting the right device. Using YaST, you can only choose one. If you have the right device (wlan0) selected, you can
SuSEfirewall2
from the console once the card has it's IP address etc.

In the end, I set up my onboard NIC to be manual because I was just using the wireless card. You can do this in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 by adding/changing
STARTMODE='manual'

Then if you don't have the wireless card plugged in, you can just
ifup eth0

hth
ws