Michel, if I remember correctly, the wireless part of Centrino does not have a native Linux driver. This forces you to use ndiswrapper (or the commercial Linuxant one if you want to pay for it). Suse has a pre-compiled ndiswrapper package which should work for you. This page has a good description of what needs to be done: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/04/pohletz_ndiswrapper.html I've been using ndiswrapper on two machines for well over a year now and have only had minor problems with it on my laptop (it appears to be a Bios issue and not an ndiswrapper issue). Hope this helps Mike On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:01, Michel Maria-Sube wrote:

Hi, On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:01:35PM -0800, Michel Maria-Sube wrote: I'm tempted to just write "RTFM" here ;-) My solution has been to write simple scripts using the "standard" tools ifconfig / iwconfig / route to configure the network(s) I normally use. An example would be something like: # first, deconfigure previous network settings - avoids bad surprises /etc/init.d/network stop # get the wifi device up and running ifconfig eth1 up # set the transmission rate, let's try for max speed (802.11b) iwconfig eth1 rate 11 # set the essid, use "any" for open wlans iwconfig eth1 essid whatever # set the WEP key if necessary iwconfig eth1 key restricted iwconfig eth1 key some-hex-code-for-key # get IP address, set route and nameservers dhclient eth1 (to be run as root) (K)Ubuntu does come with a control center that allows the definition of different network profiles (incl. essid, WEP key etc.), I'd be surprised if SuSE 10 didn't provide something similar. You *do not want* to use driverloader etc. - you've got the free drivers (maybe not free firmware though) to handle the WiFi, there's no point at all in using Windows drivers. Your only issue is properly configuring the already supported WiFi card, for which there exist tools - command-line (as above) or GUI (yast would be a good place to look for SuSE). Greetings & hth, Eric