It seems this thread and
New User Having Trouble Following Sticky Instructions :-( - openSUSE Forums could do with being merged as they seem to be becoming the same topic. My bad!
I don't think I need to compile the driver for access point any more as I've downloaded a pre-compiled .rpm from one of the repos (assuming it's the right thing I've got).
My trouble now seems to be getting connected to my network... See a couple of posts back.