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I just purchased a brand-new ACER ASPIRE 4715Z without any operating system installed. Just DOS. This belongs to ACER's new model line-up where there is no manual wifi switch. .... Is there a way to turn-on wifi without using the keyboard button?[/b]
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My research indicates that this Acer has a "Built-in Acer InviLink Wireless LAN (802.11b/g)". Can you confirm that?
It was not clear to me from your post as to what you tried .... Have you installed openSUSE-10.3 on this laptop? The chance of finding an openSUSE user also with an Acer Aspire 4715Z on this forum is slim, hence you may need to solve this on your own (with some help). For example, I saw no reference to your model Aspire on this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Acer
If you have installed openSUSE-10.3, did you try to configure this wireless with YaST > Network Devices > Network Card (when you were in range of a wireless WAN that you were authorized to use)? Did you have any success?
If no success, could you provide more information, by providing the wireless specific output of typing the following in a konsole(with root permissions):
lspci -vv
I seriously doubt that I will be able to help, but I think the Linux users on this forum, who do understand wireless, will need that "lspci -vv" information.
Good luck.