10.2 WiFi problem

[Cruzweb]

Hi All. After installing openSuSe 10.2 on my laptop and trying to connect wirelessly through my PCMCIA linksys card, I'm getting no luck. I try to find wireless access points, it gives me nothing. I try to specify the router and connect manually, and I get nothing.

here's the kicker: when I go to set the card up again (remove device in YaST and add it again), it tells me "The device needs a firmware to function properly. It can be usually downloaded from your driver vendor web page". Then it tells me to click continue if I've installed firmware and cancel if I haven't.

wireless is the last thing I need to set up on here, any and all help is much appreciated.

[rong]

Have you checked out the sticky howto in the WiFi section?

[bigtomrodney]

Is the card broadcom based? There's a firmware cutter you can use that is pretty good for that - fwcutter-bcm43xx

[Cruzweb]

I did the ndiswrapper program when I thought something might have been up before, so I've loaded the module and got the drivers and it's the same thing. Here's my iwlist output

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


but when I try to do a scan with iwlist eth1 scan I get
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

The driver in YaST is the same as it was before I installed ndisWrapper, it won't let me change it (assuming it's wrong).

Aside from trying to do a firmware update on my card (which is a linksys wpc54g v3 pcmcia adapter) IDK what else to do.,