I’ve had problems getting SuSE 8.2 to start dhcp on my wireless pcmcia card that I use in my laptop at home. For some reason, that I haven’t figured out yet but it’s one of either SuSE’s impementation or a change in the kernel pcmcia drivers, this interface is now called wlan0 instead of eth0 that it was called in 8.1.
At last I figured it out after deleting all network devices in yast and then creating a new wireless one. After this it still didn’t work, but now I got log messages helping me:
ifup: No configuration found for wlan-pcmcia-1 wlan0
Going into /etc/sysconfig/network I found the file ifcfg-eth-pcmcia. I tried to create a symlink from this file to ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia-1, which solved the problem. My guess is that this is the file that yast should have created instead of the one that it did create.
I’ll see if I can figure out what yast is doing wrong, so that I can log it as a bug with SuSE.