On 09/11/2010 08:05 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 11 Sep 2010 14:08:09 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
Dear Anne,
Let us tackle the issues one at a time. Let me summarise first. 1. You have two wireless cards a "on board" one and an usb one? Yes
2. onboard one never worked. (it did not work in fedora either) Correct. It may also be relevant that at one point I got a strange message from logwatch, and was told to report it to the kernel bugzilla. They indicated that it was connected with the wireless, and told me to apply a patch and recompile the kernel (as far as I can remember correctly). I told them that that was beyond my expertise unless they could point me to documentation. They didn't.
3. the usb one worked and now seems to have stopped?
To be honest, I never tried shutting off the wired, so I don't know whether wpa-supplicant was doing its thing or not. At some point this afternoon the green light came on again on the usb one. ifconfig now shows its mac address, but both RX and TX are 0 packets.
by the way half of the people that replied to this are on #opensuse-kde it may be helpful to ask there too.
Good idea. I'll do that, thanks.
Anne
Just one important point, the /var/log/NetworkManager.log & wpa_supplicant related log can explain lot's of things. Also you can check with modinfo iwl6xx ( don't knows the exact real name of your kernel module ) the complementary option you can pass to it. for example : increasing debug output after that you should edit the corresponding /etc/modprobe.d/50-iwlxxxx file For example for my iwl3945 I use that # options from modinfo iwl3945 #parm: antenna:select antenna (1=Main, 2=Aux, default 0 [both]) (int) #parm: swcrypto:using software crypto (default 1 [software]) #(int) #parm: debug:debug output mask (uint) #parm: disable_hw_scan:disable hardware scanning (default 0) (int) #parm: fw_restart3945:restart firmware in case of error (int) options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=0 fw_restart3945=1 #debug=100 when trouble appear Hope this help you a bit. I've found in my case that the fw_restart was very usefull in many situation. It help me also to fix my AP which was changing it's channel too fast :-) -- Bruno Friedmann bruno@ioda-net.ch Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org (bruno.friedmann (at) fsfe.org ) tigerfoot on irc GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org