starl8gazer@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could anyone please help me out in the following problem?
>
> Hardware:
>
> * IBM laptop Thinkpad T30 Type 2366-B1U S/N 78-HFTB9 08/02
>
> * Cisco PCMCIA card Aironet 340 11 Mbps 2.4GHz DS
>
>
> System software:
>
> * dual boot machine Windows XP and Linux
>
> * Suse Linux 10.1, 'uname -rv' says '2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep
> 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006', all patches duly downloaded and installed;
> using KDE
>
> * infos from YaST/Network Devices/Cisco 340 Series Wireless LAN Adapter:
> Hardware Details:
> Hardware Configuration Name: bus-pcmcia-0.0
> Module Name: airo_cs
> (that is what it came up with at the installation of Suse)
>
>
> Symptoms:
>
> * under Suse Linux, I cannot get wireless connection to local WLAN;
> KWiFiManager shows excelent signal strength, KNetworkManager shows
> that the little blue progress bar for the connection process stops at
> about 2/3 of full length, SSID of local WLAN is recognized in both
> cases
>
> * under Windows XP wireless connection looks okay
>
>
> What can I do to make the wireless card work under Suse Linux?
>
> In you reply, please be specific as I am not a Linux expert at all.
>
> Thank you for your time and help,
>
> Starl8gazer
That sounds like the radio part is ok.
We need to know a little bit more, though.
Presumably you have configured an IP address/netmask or is it DHCP?
What does iwconfig eth1 (I'm blindly assuming eth0 is the ethernet port
and eth1 is the wireless port) say?
Are you using WEP?

Werner