Hi,

I recently (just today) installed Suse 9.2 on a spare machine with a Safecom Wifi card (acx111). This machine previously had Win98 on it and was able to connect to my router (Netgear WGT624) as an access point for web browsing using this card.

I'm unable to get the linux box to find my router. I've tried Yast initially and then followed the instructions at House of Craig but with no joy. My router is broadcasting its SSID (COOKNETWORK) with no WEP encryption or MAC address restrictions but "iwlist wlan0 scan" doesn't find anything.

My iwconfig output is:

linux:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g/b+ ESSID:"COOKNETWORK" Nickname:"linux"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

and ifconfig is:

linux:~ # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:983:60:01
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:98ff:fed3:6001/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:9

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

What driver are you trying to use to run the card?

acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_43.tar.bz2

I downloaded this according to the instructions on House Of Craig and built and depmod'ed it. I assume this is the version that's being used.

Alright. Take the drivers actual name, the part that you "insmod" or "modprobe" to get it to work. And set up a new card in yast, and use that name as the module name. Be sure to disable any other network connections. You can set up your network essid and encryption keys in yast as well.