Hello I been have a lot of problems with my network cards in OpenSUSE 10. I am running OpenSUSE 10 on a laptop with IBM 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller and AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b. Sometimes when I boot the system my wireless card is not configured correctly. The command #ifconfig up produces an error up: error fetching interface information: Device not found but eth0 is in the configured is found in the out put of dmesg e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xc0204000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:09:6B:CD:D7:7F YaST2 confiuration creates two configuration for the wireless card one that is configured with the following settings: AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b Device Name: wlan-id-00:02:8a:9f:4c:61 IP address assigned using DHCP Started automatically at boot and another device is not configured: AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b The device is not configured ( Press Edit to configure After pressing Edit the configure and the "Configuration Name" for the device is made up of the PCI bus address, bus-pci-0000:02:02.0, rather than the MAC address. Bellow is the configuration for the eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-00:02:8a:9f:4c:61 ---------------------------------------- BOOTPROTO='dhcp' BROADCAST='' IPADDR='' MTU='' NAME='AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b' NETMASK='' NETWORK='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='rBUF.XXRzaImhVKA' USERCONTROL='yes' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_ESSID='' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:02.0' --------------------------------------------------------- . I am unable to delete the card that does not have its IP configured. So configure the unconfigured instance of the wlan card with the device name of ifcfg-wlan-bus-pci-0000:02:02.0. The /etc/network/ifcfg-wlan-bus-pci-0000:02:02.0 -------------------------------------------------------- BOOTPROTO='dhcp' BROADCAST='' IPADDR='' MTU='' NAME='AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b' NETMASK='' NETWORK='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='LHB6.XZsr+ZxeFZF' USERCONTROL='yes' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_ESSID='' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:02.0' ----------------------------------------------- I try the ifconfig command again # ifconfig eth0 up and receive the following message eth0: unknown interface: No such device Problem Resolution To get the card work, I must reboot delete both of the configuration files, ifcfg-wlan-bus-pci-0000:02:02.0 and ifcfg-wlan-id-00:02:8a:9f:4c:61. The I reboot the computer. I do not understand how or what configure the network cards. There are there different interfaces, YaST, ifconfig, and Kinternet, which all seem to work against each other. What do I need to do to get this to work? I am also have problem with the printer, I have to configure it with CUP interface every time I reboot. Something keeps deleting the printer. but that for a different post. Thank You Aaron Siegel