[KLUG Members] Laptop PCMCIA Wireless Problem

[Bruce Smith]

> People who tried to help me with this suggested that it seemed to be a 
> problem with the PCMCIA system in Mandrake 10 Official. So, last night I 
> installed SuSe 9.1 Pro [Thanks Bruce!] and plugged in the card. SuSe 
> recognized it and I configured it and the link light is solid when it is in 
> the computer. The iwconfig command reveals that the card is recognizing the 
> access point's ESSID, but from what I can tell from the ifconfig command, 
> the card (Eth1) is not getting info from DHCP. Network no joy.
> 
> Where do I start?

Try running YAST, and setting up the network interface for the card.

 - BS