Help with wireless on Laptop

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Netgear MA401 wireless card. I'm running Suse 9. Network Devices sees the card and seems to have it configured but I can't get it to work. I've tried PCMCIA set to kernel and external. If I set it to kernel and insert the card, the light on the card show steady green like it's connected but when I do ifconfig or iwconfig, it doesn't show wlan. If I set it to external and plug the card in, the green light on the card blinks, like it's not connected, but when I run ifconfig and iwconfig, it does show wlan0. I'm kindof new to linux, but had this working in Suse 8.2. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks