First post, apologies to all if I get the etiquette wrong. A relative n00b to the world of linux, I am running SuSE 9.1 and attempting to climb the himalayas. Sorry, I meant get my wireless adaptor to connect to the network. Two weeks in the ndiswrapper foothills, I find myself at a dead end. In a nutshell, no matter what I do, (iwconfig, YAST, editing the ifcfg-wlan0 file directly), ssid cannot be set. (See iwconfig below). Please help, I'm not sure I can take any more of this. dmesg, ifconfig and iwconfig as follows. dmesg ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded ndiswrapper adding rtl8180.sys wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:50:fc:bd:fb:62 using driver rtl8180.sys wlan0: no IPv6 routers present ifconfig wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:BD:FB:62 inet6 addr: fe80::250:fcff:febd:fb62/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16980 (16.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Memory:ee000000-ee0000ff wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"HOME" Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0