Greetings, (responding in German is fine!) I've installed SuSE 8.2 on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 laptop and I'm trying to get WiFi to work. The wireless card is a Lucent/Orinoco based mini-PCI interface which worked perfectly using the orinoco_cs driver in RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9 (and of course) Windows XP. The interface is configured as eth1 with the orinoco_cs module (the "alias eth1 orinoco_cs in /etc/modules.conf is there). Here are the problem symptoms: - During boot, eth1 reports as "failed" - KWiFi Manager shows my machine has contact with the access point, the signal strength is excellent, the ESS ID is correct but Local IP is missing. - iwconfig shows the same information. - Trying to ping something results in "Network is unavailable" message. If I then go into the Control Center and open up the configuration tool for the network cards, it shows that the wireless card is in ad hoc mode. It should be set to "Auto". Now, if I change the setting to "Auto" and hit "Finish" something interesting happens: For a brief instant, after SuSEconfig has completed, KWiFi Manager shows a local IP address and then the connection disappears and everything goes blank. Rebooting will restore the WLAN connection to the same state as before, and it will have returned to ad hoc mode. I've tried all the different drivers which should work with this card - same problem. This has to be something SuSE specific because it worked with other distributions. I have 2 DHCP servers on the LAN and both are working fine. Any help appreciated! thanks, ------------------------------------------------------- Per-Olof Litby Phone: +46 8 631-1463 Regional Mgr - Nordic/Baltic Fax: +46 8 631-1005 Java Web Services Email: politby@sun.com Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------------- Calendar URL below (Sun only) http://namefinder.germany/nfcal.cgi?-s+23213 ------------------------------------------------------- I've got this great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -------------------------------------------------------