wireless stopped working

ramon com wrote:
> hello
> i’m running suse 10.3 on a gateway laptop, the wireless card had always
> worked fine but suddenly it stopped, and now ethernet is the only way to
> network,
>
> i have checked yast > network settings and it says
>
> Wireless Network Card (not connected)
> BusID : 0000:04:00.0
> Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device is not
> present
>
> this error is very unexpected, i cannot explain why it happened, i used
> the install cd to reinstall the system but it failed to configure the
> network card
>
> i want to know what configuration changed on my system, i really need
> to fix this because right now i don’t have the time, and i need to work
> on the laptop using wireless ¬¬
>
> and i’m sure it works fine, i have used suse on this laptop from two
> months or so…

What does the output of dmesg have to say about your wireless card?