The card in question is a zd1211rw USB card wich get detected on first try, but SuSE fails to rename the card’s adapter to eth0 (or eth1, not sure which).
The card successfully locates my AP and authenticates to it. However, dhclient is called next on an nonexistent interface, and it complains to my log before dying.
That is my diagnosis, here is some aditional info just in case:
modinfo: could not open ndiswrapper: Is a directory
module version is too old!
utils version: ‘1.9’, utils version needed by module: ‘0’
module details:
modinfo: could not open ndiswrapper: Is a directory
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at NdisWrapper
Thank you, but I am not using ndiswrapper, as my card has a native driver.
I am trying it, though, just in case. I have problems getting the windows driver to the machine without using the network device, which I will solve on my own given enough time.
I am asking for help getting the kernel to detect the card as eth or detect it as whatever but later renamiing it, which is not doing.
When I first search through the forums I did not find the wireless forum, I only found this one (the hardware forum). Since wireless cards are some form of hardware, I posted here.