Dear list, I wanna share my experience with a wireless network card because I think others could have the same problem I'm having. Of course I also hope someone in the list can give me an advice on how to handle the issue. The card is the Belkin 802.11g Wireless Desktop Network Card, the distro is OpenSUSE 10.1. Basically the card is not supported by madwifi nor nsdiwrapper. I've inspected the PCI bus to find out that a RaLink chipset is used. RaLink makes an open driver for linux. I downloaded, compiled and installed the RaLink module. The module is loaded at startup and the card is correctly recognized. The problem I have is that Yast still doesn't see the card even if the module is loaded. If I configure (ifconfig and iwconfig) the card manually, it works perfectly. What I expected was to see the card in the Yast network configuration module, but it's not there. My efforts to manually bring up the card at boot time (with if-up) failed miserably because it seems to me that the network scripts aren't standard in OpenSUSE, and I got really confused about how they work. The script ifcfg-ra0 that I made (the network interface is ra0 with the RaLink module) is launched but it fails because the card is still down at boot time. The only way to bring it up is to do that manually with ifconfig. So The best solution here would be to make Yast see the card, or at least to bring up the card at boot time so that the network scripts don't fail when init calls them. Even if I didn't include all the logs the message is long. I'm sorry for that. If any detail is needed I'll promptly send it in reply to the list. Thanks a LOT to anyone wanting to help. Mauro_ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com