I have install SuSE 10 Enterprise Desktop and I have a PCMCIA 3COM Wireless card. The card is recognised but it appears to be "unpowered" as the LED's are not lit and I can not access the Wireless Router.

I'm also very new to Linux and have no knowledge so any help will be appreciated.

A simple brand name does us no good. Even a brand/model doesn't help much, because the chipset often changes between hardware revisions. What we need is the chip information:

1. Open a console.
2. Change to root
   Code:

   foo@bar:~> su
   Password:
   bar:/home/foo #

3. type
   Code:

   bar:/home/foo #lspci

4. post back here with the results.

The lights don't mean much. My Belkin wireless card has a couple of LED's that wink at me like a hungry $2 whore the whole time it operates in windows. The card uses madwifi in Linux, and the LED's are completely dark the whole time. There are a few CLI strings I can issue to the card to bring the lights to life, but what for? I know it is working because I can browse the network and internet, besides the knetworkmanager tray app showing a connected status.

Get back with the lspci output and someone might be able to help you better.

viel gluck,

J