I got my ipw2100 going with static IP and 128bit's WEP encryption by selecting ASCII where you put the "passphrase".
Also on Gnome I have a nice little tool (remebering me of NetworkManager from Fedora) which enables me to choose which kind of connection to use, office-wlan, home-wlan or just the old eth0.
Hope it can help.
At first : thx for the fast reply :). And yeah, that did it. Well at last I can connect to the AP for now. I did not know that it was ASCII I had to turn on, instead of passphrase with WEP, *hits the table with head*. Obviously I was too fixed on solving the whole thing with WAP that I trifled a little with my WEP testing. But for sure WEP is a fairly insecure solution (ok ok better than none encryption, I know ^^). Do you (or anybody else) know why WPA doesn't work ? I am pretty sure it did work with the ipw2100 while I was running SUSE 9.3 on my notebook, so I cannot imagine why there are now problems running WPA with SUSE 10.
PS = do you have any switch on you case which de/activates the pci card ? check if SuSE detects it's state...
Yes, I have got a switch for that, but SUSE does not react in anyway if I use it, no notification or something like that ... usual problem with linux on a notebook. Thx again for the fast solution.
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