Ralink Rt73 Compiled On Suse 10.3 Msi Barebone Notebook

Hello everyone...

I'm new to wireless laptops, but not to Linux. I've successfully got the Ralink rt73 modules and firmware to compile,but I can't locate a wireless network, even though I got an Acer Aspire with an Atheros wireless chip running on Suse 10.3 just a week ago.

Be that as it may, here's the prinout out of ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19B:3D:04:92
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:300 (300.0 B) TX bytes:300 (300.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19B:96:33:67
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-19-DB-96-33-67-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


so, how close is this system to actually running wireless?

Though I m not an expert I would say that you are pretty near when wlan0 is there. You don't explain that you used YaST > Network devices > Network Card to configure it. Did you?