[Sderby] 802.11b with SuSE 8.1

[Mini Mike]

All,

Has anyone had any luck with wireless networking?  I'm currerntly tring t=
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a Prism II based Zoom Air card to work under SuSE 8.1.  I have tried sett=
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up the card in YaST2.  It names the interface eth-pcmcia-1 and I can assi=
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it an IP address, however, I cannot ping that address from the local mach=
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and if I do an ifconfig -a, eth-pcmcia does not appear.  There is an=20
interface called wlan0.  I can see the prism module is loaded with lsmod:

Hurrican:~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
pa2usb                  8280   0
snd-pcm-oss            44928   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          12728   1  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
videodev                5600   0  (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi            4480   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      2920   0  [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                37776   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-es1968             15756   1
snd-pcm                63328   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-es1968]
snd-timer              11524   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         26628   0  [snd-es1968]
snd-mpu401-uart         3296   0  [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi            13920   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          4140   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd                    31300   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi=
=20
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec=20
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3396   0  [snd]
vmnet                  21920   6
parport_pc             25544   0
parport                22528   0  [parport_pc]
vmmon                  21428   0  (unused)
ipv6                  138964  -1  (autoclean)
prism2_cs              60816   0  (unused)
p80211                 14680   1  [prism2_cs]
ds                      6436   2  [prism2_cs]
yenta_socket            9536   2
pcmcia_core            40448   0  [prism2_cs ds yenta_socket]
joydev                  5600   0  (unused)
evdev                   4352   0  (unused)
input                   3168   0  [joydev evdev]
af_packet              12904   1  (autoclean)
e100                   74488   1
loop_fish2             11996   2
usb-uhci               21612   0  (unused)
usbcore                56768   1  [pa2usb snd usb-uhci]
lvm-mod                62976   0  (autoclean)
reiserfs              179536   2
Hurrican:~ #

If I cat /proc/net/wireless I can get the stats of the card:

Hurrican:~ # cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Miss=
ed
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beac=
on
 wlan0: 0000    0.   27.   27.       0      0      0      0      0       =
 0
Hurrican:~ #

Or use iwconfig wlan0:

Hurrican:~ # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:"non-spec"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:=
44
          Bit Rate:200kb/s
          Link Quality:0/100  Signal level:27/100  Noise level:27/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

If I try to change any of the settings using ifconfig, I get:

Hurrican:~ # iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
Hurrican:~ #

I have also tried to use ifconfig to give the card an IP address:

Hurrican:~ # ifconfig wlan0 address 10.0.0.1
address: Unknown host
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
Hurrican:~ #

Any ideas where I am going wrong?

Mike.