Hi all, I travel a lot for my work, and I've noticed many times that Linux wireless networking often doesn't connect to the networks that I'm offered in hotels. I'm pretty sure (call me cynical, but...) that this is an issue with micro$oft base stations that expect a little bit of non-standard protocol. Since windoze adopts (creates?) that protocol, it all works for them, so nobody recognizes a problem. Part of the reason I believe this is that I've found that if I reboot my machine into windoze it will almost always connect successfully. (Such is the case today, this mail is being sent from firefox under windoze, yuch!) Sometimes, but not this time, I find that if I've first connected using windoze, I can then reboot back into Linux and the network connects properly (suggesting that the protocol issues are something to do with a one-time recognition of the machine's MAC address. Anyway, is this something the SuSE community knows about, and maybe has a workaround for? If not, can I do anything to provide packet traces of windows succeeding and of Linux failing to connect? I used to use ethereal but that doesn't seem to be part of the distro any more. Is there something else I should use? And either way, what would be a workable tool under windoze? TIA, Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org