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Getting Linksys wireless card working on SuSE after updates

I recently put SuSE on my laptop because I want to get familiar with linux. In the past I have tried linux and got too frustrated with it because I can't do (mostly because I don't know how) simple things that I can do on my XP systems. Anyway, I got the card working fine and went online and used the update utility and downloaded all the updates that were out there. After the update the card will not work.. I can't get it to ping any machine on my lan. I don't even know how to tell if its getting a wireless signal. Anyway I am very new to linux and want to learn it, but if I can't even keep the laptop in the internet I will never mess with it. So, now what do I do? Thanks in advance.

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Nukfror

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brodel2

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I am at work now. I want to load kwifimanager (I don't know where it would be if I already had it) and I am looking through YaSt and don't see it.. where would it be under? Thanks.

brodel2

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Okay, I am home now and I still haven't figured out how to load kwifimanager, but I ran some of those commands and really can't tell much of anything from them. Some of them just say "Please update driver" but when I do the /usr/sbin/iwlist wan0: freq it shows all the channels and tells me the current channel. I just don't know if it's telling me that because that's what it's set to, or if that's what it's seeing. When I do the txpower though it tells me Please update driver. I am going to see if I can figure out how to get a new driver and maybe reload it I guess.

All IP configuration information in there is correct still I just can't ping out or the default gateway.
I also checked the firewall and it's not on. I had it set to protect the modem when I am dialup but I took it off and still no change.

I also tried to check /var/log/messages "by typing /var/log/messages" and it just said permission denied. Thanks.

owensleftfoot

try less /var/log/messages

Nukfror

" I had it set to protect the modem when I am dialup ..."

What do you mean by "dialup" ?

To view /var/log/messages in Suse, you have to su to root first.

owensleftfoot

What output does "ifconfig" and "route" give you?

brodel2

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"What do you mean by "dialup" ?

I mean when I am at work I turned the firewall on for the "ppp0" interface. I turned it off when I got home to test to see if that was causing any issues though.

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