[ltp] Suse 9.1 on Thinkpad r50p - wireless and power management issues

[David]

has anyone had any success on setting up Suse 9.1 on a Thinkpad r50p. I 
am mostly running into issues setting up the wireless card and the power 
management (like most people :-).

Suse seems to recognize my wireless card (Artheros 5212) and offers a 
driver for it. However once I configure the card I cannot access even my 
router whether it is through wifi or wired ethernet.

Taking down one interface does not make the other work again. It takes 
me to go back to yast to remove the wireless to get the wired network to 
work again... I haven't tried solutions like linuxant or ndiswrapper 
yet, since I am still under the impression that the card is recognized 
natively. Using iwconfig does not show any IP address for the wireless card.

The other issue has to do with power management. I am mostly interested 
in the suspend/resume feature since I use this heavily with my laptop. I 
did install the thinkpad packages that come with suse, but they do not 
work for me.

Getting the power management to work is key for me to be able to use 
linux on my laptop and any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,

david