issue with KNetworkManager - openSUSE 10.3

Greetings:

This is my first post to kde.org. Forgive me if I miss anything.


I'm on openSUSE 10.3 and am having an issue with my wireless card.  

I have a HP/Compaq NW 9440 laptop with a Intel 3945 Wireless chipset.  I can 
connect to my wireless access points, but it seems to take dozens of tries 
before the connection takes place.  This same computer had no issues 
accessing any wireless network that I tried under openSUSE 10.2.   I'm asking 
on this list because I'm wondering if there's an issue with the version of 
KNetworkManager being shipped with this version of openSUSE.

It currently has KNetworkManager 0.2 (Using KDE 3.5.7 "release 72.6" openSUSE 
10.3)

Any ideas as to what I can try?  My wifi currently has dhcp and no encryption.

Here's some info...


xwing:/home/kai # iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:72:38:22
                    ESSID:"TheForce"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
                              6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=79/100  Signal level=-55 dBm  Noise level=-55 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 16ms ago




xwing:/home/kai # lspci | grep -i Wireless
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network 
Connection (rev 02)


xwing:/home/kai # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"TheForce"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:95:72:38:22
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm
          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=78/100  Signal level=-57 dBm  Noise level=-58 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:292   Missed beacon:0

vmnet1    no wireless extensions.

vmnet8    no wireless extensions.