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@ghostintheruins: I completely understand where you're coming from and agree 100%. However... I've been fighting the installation of Linux for several days now and need to get my machine up and running. I've already taken a lot in and am learning all the time. Once I have internet access I'll be much more self-sufficient :-)

@caf4926: Followed your instructions to the letter and here's what happens:

After plugging all those settings into YaST, I get 'Saving Network Configuration' which successfully checks off everything on the list until it gets to 'Activate network services'. At this point, I get 3 'cannot access installation media' messages (presumably one for each repo). I click 'skip' on each of these and then the knetworkmanager icon disappears and that's that.

In YaST Network Settings I have:
WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b Adapter (Not connected)
Device name: wlan0
Started automatically at boot
IP address assigned using DHCP

When I right-click knetworkmanager, I get wlan0, then eth0, then No carriers, and then the menu to edit connections etc.

In the Network Card Setup for WUSB, on the hardware tab I have 2 options for Kernel module: at76c503-rfmd and at76_usb. It's currently set to the usb option.