I installed the driver for my Belkin wireless usb adapter using ndiswrapper and I went into /etc/sysconfig and told ndiswrapper to be loaded on boot. In yast, under Network cards, I set up both my ethernet card (currently disconnected) and my wireless usb adapter using all the appropriate settings. When I tried to view a website Konqueror kept telling me unknown host or host cannot be found. I then disabled my ethernet card by deleting its configuration in yast. I tried to go online using Konqueror again. It still gave me the same problem, however I noticed a considerable increase in time before Konqueror gave me the unknown host error. I then used Firefox. After a considerable delay, it finally gave me a webpage. I decided that Konqueror must have timed out when it tried to go online. My wireless usb adapter was performing at a very slow rate. I then switched to Windows and my wireless connection worked perfectly fine. Any idea on how to speed up my wireless performance in Suse 10.1? Any help appreciated!

I think the problem is that I am getting a weak signal on my usb wireless adapter and the ndiswrapper driver doesn't know how to compensate for this (this is my theory since the driver works fine in windows). Can any one confirm this? The stats in KInternet displays the signal strength as 0/100.