I have a DLink DWL650 wireless card which has worked (and still does) under other distros for 2 years.

In a cleanly installed opensuse 10.1, I have added the packman madwifi-kmp package. The card is recognized by the hardware probe since it shows up when I attempt to configure internet access through it. Moreover, KNetwork Manager shows several wireless access points, so it appears that the card is detecting the broadcast signals from several different 11b and 11g transmitters in the area.

The problem is that nothing I have tried yet allows me to use the connection. ifconfig shows the card under wlan0 (witht the correct MAC hardware address), but doesn't report an ip address. I also can't ping my router. dhcpcd wlan0 doesn't seem to do anything for the wireless card, but it causes my wired (eth0) connection to loose it's ip address.

I've turned off my firewall and there's no encryption on the wireless side so I'm stumped.

I haven't upgraded my laptop yet to 10.1, so I can't comment exactly. However, can you ping yourself? Are you using KInternet or the newer Network Manager? Also, you might want to check if your WLAN card is built in correctly. IIRC, Novell stopped including non OSS WLAN drivers in their kernel modules. Again, since I haven't tried 10.1 on my laptop yet, I'm not sure of the effect on those of us using laptops. Finally, you mentioned that the WLAN worked in earlier distros. Which ones? SUSE? Whoppix? Ubuntu? Fedora? PHLAK? -- k