Networking Issues On All Devices

Suse 10.3 KDE deskstop

AMD athelon 64. 2 GIGS of ram. Netgear WG311 wifi card.

The OS installed with out a hitch. Everything works except
the networking. Not just the wifi card the whole bloody thing.
Hardware shows everything. Eth0, Eth1, Wifi, Usb. Even tells me everything you ever wanted to
know about the devices.

Flip over over to the networking side. Eth0, not connectted. No wifi, no usb, ETH1 for some reason works
to a point. Even though it has the same settings as ETH0. I can see the router and go no further.

Tried using ndiswrapper. It won't install says it can't find the kenerel even though it tells me the kernel's name.
Madwifi says it can't find the dependencies.

Ran PCOSlinux on this machine and everything worked fine right from the startup.
SUSE no such luck. Do I really need a 64 bit OS for a 64 bit computer?
I am stumped been banging on this for four days and ready to format the drive and forget it.

Any suggestions?

ref madwifi, make sure you have kernel sources,gcc/gcc++ & make installed.then, add madwifi repo to your install sources & yast will take care of the dependencies.once installed, go to yast - network devices - network cards & configure from there

Andy