10.2, RT2500&static IP

[RenMcCourtey]

Hi. I found out today that wi-fi in Linux is realy so tricky as they say..I installed SuSE 10.2 and have no network card. After a little googling I found chipset (rt2561), downloaded serialmonkey's driver and installed it. But I'm a little dizzy what to do now? KNetworkManager offers it as interface wlan0 but have no configuration for static IP so it can't connect (stops at 28% saying 'configuring'). YAST>Network>Network card is empty, so I wanted to add Wireless and configure it but there's no RaLink or RT2500 or something similar. If there's anybody out there not tired enough with wifi-linux questions, pls, help me. I guess I'm missing something big here.

[Abu Hajar]

Hi
I have the same problem as you except with RT2500 ive used loads of diff driver versions including serialmonkeys (the beta and the CVS) and ive used Ndiswrapper and the drivers on the official site.

On all of them there is no error presented. It can see my access point and it shows me the strength of the connection but it stops at 28% and then times out any help would be greatly appreciated...

thanks in advance

[RenMcCourtey]

Just guessing but maybe You have disabled DHCP on AP and set dynamic IP on your box? Becouse what You describes usualy happens when NIC can't get IP.

[Abu Hajar]

the access point is DHCP because its my uni connection and ive never had to enter an ip address manually its really strange..

but what im gonna try is write down my ip settings form windows and put em in manually in linux and see what happens...