With respect to wlan and internet access I have had some success with OS10.2 and so have after a succession of DVD updating a remnant ifcfg-wlan0, now evidently not entirely compatible to OS10.3beta2. There has however been no success in booting up the wlan ( in Linux ) during the good halfyear of switching my dualboot Fujitsu-Siemens desktop between WinXp and any alpha or beta version of OpenSuse 10.*. Rather while in XP I use the YAReg tool for looking into the Reiser file system to examine the crucial man and /etc/.. files from within cygwin, in relative repose, thus able to send this email. Tia to those reading what has become much too long / Tom My observations are marked : Comment After booting the state of 10.3 beta2 is examined: Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:05:6C:7A:A7 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:820 (820.0 b) TX bytes:820 (820.0 b) Comment: No wlan is discovered. In my brick house the desktop is > 10m for radio waves, 25m cable distance from the Dell Wireless 2350 Broadband Router. I have no cable connection. Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ndiswrapper -l wlanuig : driver installed device (0BF8:1007) present Comment: Card: Fujitsu-Siemens Connect2Air E-5400 USB Chipset: Intersil-Frisbee + Netchip usbid: 0bf8:1007 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:05:61:02:61 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Comment: why was that accepted ? Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Comment: Security mode:restricted. why ? Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless key open Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless" Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4B:E2:74:E8 Bit Rate=6 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:25/100 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Comment: Finally, ssid, AP and Security mode:open And now something odd: Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifdown wlan0 wlan0 Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ifup wlan0 wlan0 Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0... . IP/Netmask: 192.168.2.2 / 255.255.255.0 ('Axehult-Fujitsu') Error while executing: Command 'ip route replace to 213.163.128.185/24 via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0' returned: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Configuration line: 213.163.128.185 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0 Error while executing: Command 'ip route replace to 213.142.0.242/24 via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0' returned: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Configuration line: 213.142.0.242 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0 Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless" Nickname:"Axehult-Fujitsu" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4B:E2:74:E8 Bit Rate=6 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:0850-1564-5915-****-****-****-** [3] Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:29/100 Signal level:-77 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Comment: Security mode:restricted. why ? Axehult-Fujitsu:/home/taxehult # ping gateway PING default-gateway (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from default-gateway (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.79 ms 64 bytes from default-gateway (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.73 ms At this stage using an internet browser I can login to my router 192.168.2.1 but not reach internet, a DNS problem I gather. I admit that I have been unable on uncountable attempts to use YAST's 'network card' initializer. How tackle the DNS problem ?