Wireless 3945abg How To Make It Work?

I have installed ipw 3945 driver.

then I have made following actions

yast > network devices > network card
there in the list is the card 3945ABG (not configured)

then

configure > dynamic adress > DHCP

under option hardware ipw3945

What I am missing?

I have not done this in openSUSE 10.3 (you do not tell us what you have), but once in 10.0. I ha to tell much more about the wireless network: id's, encryption, etc.

I have not done this in openSUSE 10.3 (you do not tell us what you have), but once in 10.0. I ha to tell much more about the wireless network: id's, encryption, etc.
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Sorry,
its 10.3
It is Philips wireless modem-router with MAC filtering. I have put the MAC adress which appear with the settings of the wireless device. I have set up encryption to no. So far no result.

1) are all the components of ipw3945 installed (ipw3945, ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode)?
2) is ipw3945d up
3) is module ipw3945 up
4) is dhcp daemon up
5) is your /etc/hosts configured
6) what about /etc/resolv.conf
7) is your firewall up and configured
8) please post output of:
iwconfig
ifconfig -a

iwp3945 (suse) and iwl3945 worked/works for me, so it might be config issue or some quirk in suse ipw3945 handling

1) are all the components of ipw3945 installed (ipw3945, ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode)?
2) is ipw3945d up
3) is module ipw3945 up
4) is dhcp daemon up
5) is your /etc/hosts configured
6) what about /etc/resolv.conf
7) is your firewall up and configured
8) please post output of:
iwconfig
ifconfig -a

iwp3945 (suse) and iwl3945 worked/works for me, so it might be config issue or some quirk in suse ipw3945 handling
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sorry, I am quite unexperienced user
this is what iwconfig and ifconfig returns. It looks to me that Suse have detected my wireless modem but I don't know how to configure it.

linux-5uc2:~ # iwconfig
lo********no wireless extensions.

eth0******no wireless extensions.

wlan0**** IEEE 802.11g**ESSID:"Philips WiFi"
**********Mode:Managed**Frequency:2.412 GHz**Access Point: 00:12:BF:2B:B3:C4
**********Bit Rate:54 Mb/s** Tx-Power:15 dBm
**********Retry limit:15** RTS thr:off** Fragment thr:off
**********Encryption key:off
**********Power Management:off
**********Link Quality=100/100**Signal level=-17 dBm**Noise level=-18 dBm
**********Rx invalid nwid:0**Rx invalid crypt:0**Rx invalid frag:0
**********Tx excessive retries:0**Invalid misc:3** Missed beacon:0

linux-5uc2:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0******Link encap:Ethernet**HWaddr 00:1B:24:E1:19:8A
**********inet addr:192.168.1.5**Bcast:192.168.1.255**Mask:255.255.255.0
**********inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:fee1:198a/64 Scope:Link
**********UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST**MTU:1500**Metric:1
**********RX packets:2867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
**********TX packets:1727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
**********collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
**********RX bytes:4073669 (3.8 Mb)**TX bytes:133040 (129.9 Kb)
**********Interrupt:17 Base address:0x8000

lo********Link encap:Local Loopback
**********inet addr:127.0.0.1**Mask:255.0.0.0
**********inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
**********UP LOOPBACK RUNNING**MTU:16436**Metric:1
**********RX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
**********TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
**********collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
**********RX bytes:7580 (7.4 Kb)**TX bytes:7580 (7.4 Kb)

wlan0**** Link encap:Ethernet**HWaddr 00:1C:BF:57:A5:77
**********inet6 addr: fe80::21c:bfff:fe57:a577/64 Scope:Link
**********UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST**MTU:1500**Metric:1
**********RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
**********TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
**********collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
**********RX bytes:6624 (6.4 Kb)**TX bytes:472 (472.0 b)
**********Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 Memory:f4000000-f4000fff

linux-5uc2:~ #**

this is the card i have. i had a little trouble getting it started up. make sure the driver you use is ipw3945, not iwlwifi, as i had troubles with this, so uninstalled any instances of it. next, make it set to traditional method with ifup. there have been problems with knetworkmanager and this card, it finds the network but won't connect. if you can get access by a cable, go online and download wifi-radar. wifi-radar works fine for me. you could also try kinternet as this worked ok for me, but i find wifi-radar better. if your still stuck, post back

this is the card i have. i had a little trouble getting it started up. make sure the driver you use is ipw3945, not iwlwifi, as i had troubles with this, so uninstalled any instances of it. next, make it set to traditional method with ifup. there have been problems with knetworkmanager and this card, it finds the network but won't connect. if you can get access by a cable, go online and download wifi-radar. wifi-radar works fine for me. you could also try kinternet as this worked ok for me, but i find wifi-radar better. if your still stuck, post back
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Yes I have cable. Well when you are kernel hacker and you have had "little" troubles making it work then I will have big ones

Unfortunately I don't know any of the traditional methods and this is the first time for me to try to get wifi working. I am trying to use graphical interface but sometimes the settings don't make any sense for me as I don't know nothing about networks.

According to your advice I have downloaded WIFI Radar and I have disabled MAC filtering of the modem. I left old network settings in yast>hardware the same
When starting WIFI Radar it asks for administrator passwords and then it displays two or three networks. It has successfully connected with my modem and requested IP adress, then 192.168.1.46 was displayed. It looks to me that connection is established but I still don't have internet without a cable. And there is not one icon of WIFI Radar on the taskbar.

I think that I have to make this application to start on boot, than to connect automatically and to stay on the tascbar between other active applications but first thing is to get internet with it. There is icon of Kinternet which connects me with network settings of yast. The problem is that I don't have any idea how to make that things working.

Well, finally the problem is solved. After deactivating kinternet and with wifi-radar the wireless works. Now the question is how to make it to work on log-on and to add icon on the system tray

Well, finally the problem is solved. After deactivating kinternet and with wifi-radar the wireless works. Now the question is how to make it to work on log-on and to add icon on the system tray
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excellent stuff, glad you got it sorted. regarding auto start, wifi-radar needs a root password to start. so what you can do to get around this is open up /home/username then in the address bar put the cursor after your username then type /.kde and press enter (so you are at /home/username/.kde then there is a folder called auto start. now make the window size smaller so u can see your desktop, now from the kmenu find wifi-radar and drag it to the autostart folder. this will make it ask you for root password at boot, tyoe this in and its up without you having to click on the icon each time. regarding system tray icon, as far as i'm aware there isn't an icon for wifi-radar. is this good enough? i hope so, and glad to have been a help.

a kernel hacker....trust me i'm really know nothing about linux. i've only been using it for about 2-3years.

Thanks for the tip. It was useful.