All,

I am running a 802.11 b setup.

I just installed Suse Linux 9.1 as dual boot on my Win98 machine.

This machine has a D-Link DWL-520 wireless card and Yast seems to install it automatically.

I am not sure if the settings for the connection to the router are correct.

I am connecting to a netgear router with:

SSID = roberts
workgroup = home
WEP = off

I have had pretty good success with windows in configuring my network.

Everything is supposed to be automatic such as obtaining an IP from the router, etc.

I named the SSID because of others in my apartment building accidently sucking my bandwidth up by connecting to it.

I am not sure where I am having trouble.

I am new to linux and if I can just get on the internet and my network I can start learning even more about linux.

Thanks,

Frank

If you don't mind we'll do it in the command line since the gui doesn't always seem to get things straight and it's easier to diagnose errors this way. First off you have to set your essid.

After that you can use a dhcp program to get the rest of your settings:
Now try your internet. If it's alright it should work. But there might be a few problems right now which keep you from getting on the internet. You probably have to set a gateway:
x.x.x.x is your router's IP address.
You also might need to set your DNS server which is your AP. In your /etc/resolv.conf file you have to add a line:
where x.x.x.x is your AP again.

I can't help you with automating the process as I have another distro and I know suse uses different scripts.

If you thinkyou might be havnig DHCP issues, check your syslog; when you run 'dhclient wlan0' the syslog will log attempts to get an IP (and whether or not it worked).
pump is an alternate dhcp client which happens to log heavily - if your dhcp is giving you grief, try using pump -i wlan0 and then check the syslog.