Hey guys,
I just Installed Suse 10.1 on my laptop and Under the Network Manager that comes in the tastbar with gnome I am able to see all my wireless networks but for some reason I am not able to connect to them. Is there any additional configuration that I need to do to get my Wireless card (Linksys WPC11 v4)to work? Please suggest.
Thank you for all the support !
byen

This may help you. It's a perl script I wrote to connect my system wirelessly. You would copy and paste the code below. I was tired of manually using iwconfig commands. Read the iwconfig man page for explanations. The script is simple. It will completely configure your wireless settings using iwconfig commands (won't work without iwconfig). You can change the things I list below to your settings and in that case you just hit <ENTER> all the way through each time you run it. You may want to just execute bourne shell script commands instead of getting prompted like this script does. But at least this gives you something to use as a template.

You will need to change these things for your configuration:
- your_computer_name
- your_own_encryption_key
- your_wireless_network_name
- And maybe "eth0" to whatever your wireless card is.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Quick little script to set up wireless services on the fly.
# File Name: wl
# Date: 4-10-2005
# Author: Richard Scott Smith

print "wl: Quickly Configure Wireless Internet Connections\n";
print "Defaults are in parenthesis. Just hit <ENTER> for default selection.\n";

print "Set ethernet device name (default: eth0) ";
chomp($eth = <STDIN>);
if ($eth == "") {
# Set default input
$eth = "eth0";
} # End if

print "Set Mode (default: Managed) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "Managed";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth mode $ans`;

print "Set Nick (default: your_computer_name) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "your_computer_name";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth nick $ans`;

print "Set Key (default: your_own_encryption_key) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "your_own_encryption_key";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth key $ans`;

print "Set Sens (default: 3;-70) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "3;-70";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth sens $ans`;

print "Set Rate (default: auto) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "auto";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth rate $ans`;

print "Set Rts (default: off) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "off";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth rts $ans`;

print "Set frag (default: off) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "off";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth frag $ans`;

print "Set power (default: off) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "off";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth power $ans`;

print "Set essid (default: your_wireless_network_name) ";
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
if ($ans == "") {
# Set default input
$ans = "your_wireless_network_name";
} # End if
`/sbin/iwconfig $eth essid $ans`;

print "Bringing up the interface...\n";
`ifconfig $eth up`;
print "Attempting a connection...\n";
`/sbin/dhcpcd -N -d -t 30 $eth`;
print `ifconfig $eth`;