I sucessfully got SuSE 9.3 installed on my laptop, and it went great. 3D went smooth, mouse, everything. I had to use ndiswrapper in order to get my wireless working, but that's no big deal...went real smooth. I have Yast configured or pointing to ndiswrapper on my wireless card, as all of the tutorials I read said to do this.

Now...I use two different wireless networks just about everyday, and I can switch back and forth from them pretty easily...but I would like to make it much easier if possible. Right now, in order to use the school network, I have run a iwconfig and set my essid, then set my enc key. Once I do all that, it works and I can go on about my business. When I get home though, I have to go thru the same thing in order to get my home wireless working.

Is there a way that I can have a script or scripts, or set different configs for each location and just switch between them without all of the iwconfig commands? I have tried using the KDE wireless tool, and it allows you to have mulitple profiles, but it wouldn't work right with my card and caused some problems.

Thanks to anyone who can help me out...I'm a bit of a lInux noob

I also move my laptop around. I use the Kinternet tool (lower right hand icon in taskbar). You just right-click, select Wireless Connection, and then click on the wireless signal available and click CONNECT. It saves your wireless profiles in there, I believe. Unfortunately I don't connect to WEP or secure networks. Just open networks so I never had to save any passphrases or keys, but I believe it will save it.

Have you tried Netapplet:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/13/1914255