Thanks for everybody who's tried to help me;) All that I had to do was to delete the configuration I created. Then recreate it from Yast2 setup including the WEP string 26 bit. btw ; all values below are fictitious so replace with your own.. --------- In the Wireless screen use : Operating Mode = AD-HOC Network Name ESSID = Careless Network Identifier = Monkey Encryption Key = B0DE-3FD1-F3A4-AB0E-AB0A-B1BE-A1 Nickname = Monkey --------- In The Routing Configuration: Default Gateway = 192.168.0.1 --------- In the Network Address Setup: Network Device = eth-pcmcia-0 Static Address setup IP Address = 192.168.0.20 Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0 --------- After doing the above it still didn't work until the SuSE team told me that, the firmware did not support adhoc IBSS mode (only adhoc demo mode). So I downloaded the upgraded firmware from Netgear's site and did the relevant upgrade, btw their instructions are not very verbose so be careful. << NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC Card
<< Software Driver Release Version 2.00
<< March 22, 2002
Download MA401v200.zip Rebooted Laptop and voila :-> it's working after 5 months of trying ... Many thanks to SuSE support team and all the others who helped;) If I didn't get help from this list & SuSE I would have been stuck to using Winblow$. Dre :-> An Extremely happy man Now next mission to secure SuSE 8.1 b4 connecting to the internet any pointers anyone;)