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See update below.
So far I have not been able to get my wireless card working.
Others with SuSE 9.1 seem to be having similar problems ( see here . One of the posts on this thread prompted me to try deleting both Wireless card and the Ethernet card in Network Card settings (under Yast). I reinstalled just the Wireless card, set the correct encryption key, and IT WORKED.

I will see if it still works after reinstalling the ethernet card. I wonder if there is some conflict when 2 network devices are installed that makes it impossible for the Wireless card to get an IP address (this was what was constantly reported in /var/log/messages, in addition to only registering 2Mb/s under kwifimanager)

Here is my /etc/sysconfig/network file:
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='*************'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_ESSID='WLAN'
WIRELESS_KEY='**************'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
_nm_name='static-0'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''

Update 30/8/2004
I am now able to get my wireless card to function every time. The solution was to delete all network cards with YasT. I then inserted the wireless card and found that it registered with kwifimanager as functioning at 11Mb/s, although not able to connect to the router. With ifconfig I found that it was functioning as eth1 rather than wlan0. WIth YasT all I did was to add the name of the wireless LAN to the device configuration. The card then was able to connect.

One odd thing is that if the card is installed during power on and boot, it won't work. So I boot up, then push the card into the PCMCIA slot. Not much help if you have an inbuilt card. I have no idea yet what could cause this problem, but it doesn't inconvenience me. Please let me know if you have anything to add to this.

I hope SuSE can nail some of these irritating little problems, as they make it hard for me to persuade colleagues & friends to switch to Linux.