Wireless pcmcia in 8.2

Managed to get the wlan0 card to show up in ifconfig and I can ping it's address but not the router - I suspect the channel isn't set to the right number. What file does SuSE to set a wireless channel number? -- (o< //\ Powered by SuSE Linux V_/_ Virusproof. Crashproof. 10:42pm up 1 day, 9:00, 19 users, load average: 1.46, 1.26, 1.13 processes 119352