Alright, so i thought it would be a good idea to try out Suse. For the first hour I loved it..
Its great at detecting my laptop power support. YEAH!!!

Then it tried to configure my wireless lan card...
I have setup ndiswrapper before on mandrake and red hat. I have no trouble with it.

So after installing the suse ndiswrapper rpm and configuring my card settings I try out ifup...
Ifup was able to get an ip, which was great.
So i pinged my router and got aresponce. great.
So i pinged yahoo and could not resolve the name.
I tried going to several websites and could not get any of them.
i tried to ping my modem (on the other side of my router) and failed...
I tried ifdown and then dhcpcd wlan0
I got an ip, and the work totally worked. Everything...


I want this thing to work properly with ifup wlan0!!!!


So i've been trying this for ALL DAY!!!
My girlfriend also has just installed suse and has the EXACT same problem
with her Toshiba satellite using a linux pcmia card.


Here is some other info i came up with:
It looks like ifup leaves a blank resolv.conf
dhcpcd places a whole bunch of comments in resolv.conf, but has no actual info in there...
it also makes a file resolv.conf.saved.by.dhcpcd.wlan0 but that does not have info...

does anyone know how to get ifup to work like dhcpcd and get the name recognition up??

I've found in Suse that the dhcpd also creates a default route, in this case to the router. I assume you're relying on your router to get the name servers. I can't remember the syntax but I think there's a route config file for each device. Something like ifroute-eth1 for your wireless card. You may need this config file if you just want to use ifup. I may be wrong but just another angle to consider.

Just looked up the specifics. Here's an example:
file: /etc/sysconfig/network/ifroute-eth1
entry: default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 eth1

hth,
jason.