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Thank-you VERY much for posting this information.

After weeks of frustration it fixed the broken wireless on both my laptops.

THANK-YOU

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On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:56, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Samstag, Juni 01, 2002 at 06:57:50, Bernie Gardner wrote:
> > I know this was discussed a few weeks ago and I have tried to follow
> > previous advice, but I can't seem to get my linksys WPC-11 wireless
> > network card to work in SuSE 8.0.  It was working in 7.3 with and still
> > works in windows on the same computer so I know it's not a hardware
> > problem.  I have temporarily disabled the encryption on the wireless
> > hub, so the problem is not in the encryption.  I have included the
> > output of ifconfig and the relevant section of /var/log/messages.
> > Running dhcpcd manually results in a time-out error. I would appreciate
> > any advice (and maybe an explanation of why SuSE apparently changed the
> > pcmcia setting files, included the drivers for wireless interface cards,
> > and yet provides absolutely no documentation on how to use them!)
>
> Update to this package and everything should work like on 7.x.
>
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/zoz/pcmcia/8.0/pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm
>
> The "problem" was that the pcmcia package was build with wlan-ng without
> implement it very well.
>
> Update the package with
>
> rcpcmcia stop
> rpm -e pcmcia
> rpm -ihv pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm
> rcpmcia start
>
> Henne