Yeah, my main recommendation is to not touch any of the tools and just work from the command line.

edit your ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia by hand to set the networking and wireless settings for your card.

I believe on Suse the command to stop and start network is also

/etc/init.d/network stop

/etc/init.d/network start

Well I am now posting this in Suse after manually entering the Hex key value so this is good cause now it's working. However I still wish I knew why it didn't work with the string keyword. Thanks for all your help by the way!!!

Try this...

WIRELESS_KEY='xxxxxxxx'

you can also do a /etc/init.d/./network restart in Suse 9.0


Glad to know its working...

I am also having very similar problems with my WPC11 and SuSE 9.0. I just installed SuSE.

I have gotten it to the point where my card works connects to my wireless AP (connecting using encryption), but when the hotplug stuff starts up the network connection, it doesn't set up /etc/resolv.conf or the routing table. If I set these up by hand, it works fine...but this includes getting the dns servers from dhcp, which I only got by connecting my wired network card. I want to do this without sitting next to the router every time I want to use wireless...

The device gets registered as wlan0.

Something else I find 'interesting' (read: counterintuitive):
I have set the gateway correctly in the ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia file, but it doesn't get set when my wpc11 is plugged in.

What I need is advice on getting my computer to properly set up the non-hardware stuff when I plug in the card...dhcp is getting me an IP address correctly, but for some reason the DNS servers are not getting saved and the routing table is not getting set up.

Thanks for any help!