It seems, the problem is that the wpa_supplicant in Factory does not support madwifi driver back-end anymore. I did not disable it, it seems a patch or a flaw in the spec file breaks it. It is the SOURCES/config file which breaks it. It does not have a line break at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342670
User felix@derklecks.de added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342670#c12
--- Comment #12 from Felix Möller