Hi! I am running Suse 9 on an IBM T40, and I am trying to get Wlan working. Since I havn't dealt with wlan before, I am not sure if the problems I am having are actual driver problems, or if the network settings are just wrong. Oh, I have the standard IBM a/b miniPCI card. Suse 9 automatically recognized and configured the card as wlan0, and uses a module called ath_pci. To me, that looks like Suse is using the madwifi driver with the atheros (?) module... I don't know if that's correct. Anyway, when I start KWifi, it says its searching for a network, and I can change the mode from Ad-hoc to Access Point. Only the "automatic" setting doesn't work -- I get a corresponding error message when booting. I already learned that right now, KWifi doesn't detect the strength of the signal correctly, so I suppose it's normal that KWifi tells me that the signal is weak and out of reach. KWifi also tells me the name of the network that I have set on an Apple powerbook, and it also shows the network name of an Apple access point. KWifi also shows me an IP that has been assigned to my T40. The only thing that's missing is the message that the Wlan has actually been connected. KWifi only says "searching", and although it displays all the information about the network, it doesn't look like it's actually connected. I set the wlan setting to dhcp, the ESSID to "ANY", and left everything else blank. Setting my ESSID to the same like the network I want to connect to doesn't help. Does anybody have a similar configuration, or has enough knowledge about wlan to tell me what's wrong here? To me, it looks like the driver works, but obviously some little part is missing. Any hints? Thanks a lot! NilS PS: Is there a convinient way to manually turn the wifi card on and off? I would like to save some battery. Oh, one weird thing is that the Fn-Key combination that turns wifi and bluetooth on and off under Windows only works on part under Linux. It turns the bluetooth LED on and off, but it doesn't seem to affect the wifi card. Comments on that?
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