Opensuse 11 was officially released a couple weeks ago. I’ve install it onto my work laptop. Overall I like the distro. Compiz works well right out of the box, at least with my hardware. I even got the wireless to work, sort of. Unfortunatly, the network manager applet doesn’t seem to work all of the time. When I boot up, the laptop might or might not attach to the wireless network. There’s no ryhme or reason why either, it seems completely random. The applet also doesn’t seem to like it when I try to delete and add the wireless network connection profile. It tells me I need to use YaST. Ok then. This causes another problem to become apparent. Whenever I try to make a change to a NIC, wired or wireless, a software update process tries to run. And in my case, if I’m mucking with network configurations, chances are I’m not connected to the network. Since I did a “network” install, it needs to access the internet to run the updater. Someone screwed that one up. Wireless continues to be the only barrier that keeps me from using any Linux distro and going back to Windows. Windows support for wireless still beats the hell out of Linux in general. I’m not even refering to hardware support but rather the ability to actually connect to a wireless network and possibly provide errors when a connection failed.
I’m getting a new boss. I’m not entirely sure what to expect. My fear is that the person will come in and start making unilateral technical decisions based soley on past history(exchange, active directory, sharepoint!!!1one). Conversely, this person might be forward thinking and push for some things which I think would help with our server infrastructure. Mainly things with SAN and “virtual servers” within the same context. 
Hi, did you do any configuration changes with wireless? I have a single boot openSUSE 11. I used to have dual-boot, openSUSE 10.2/10.3 and XP. With 10.2, the wireless worked fine, because I used ndiswrapper, but with a single-boot, I still don’t know how to make wireless to work. I have madwifi, and the kernel recognizes my wireless hardware, but don’t understand why it won’t work. I change the network manager (Someone suggested to us nm-applet instead of knm), but nothing is still working.
Do you have any ideas? Thanks.
What type of wireless security are you using?
Have you run online updates on your laptop? There was network manager applet update which solved my connection issues.