On Friday 08 February 2008 03:01:47 pm Fred A. Miller wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008 09:18:29 pm Fred A. Miller wrote:
I've googled but not found much to help out.
Kai, KNetworkmanager has some "issues," to put it mildly. Try this. Delete the card in Yast, choose "finish," and go back into the Yast option for network devices. Redefine the card, but DON'T choose KNetworkmanager. Define the card with your ID etc. for your router there. See if that works.
LOL!
Apparently that - and a few reboots - has worked.
GOOD! At least you can now get online.
I wonder what they - um - fixed for 10.3. KNetworkmanager has not given me any issues in 9.2 through 10.2.
I hope it is louder for version 11.
I don't know what happened. One thing that KNetworkmanger SHOULD do, without question, is to be able to see the MAC address of hidden access points, just like XP and Vista do. Maybe it's in the stack that Knetworkmanager accesses, I don't know, but there are problems.
I was thinking of contacting the KDE developers on this. Sure enough, I rebooted my workstation this morning and it did not auto-connect to my SSID. (I had it on all night downloading then seeding the openSUSE 11.0 Alpha torrent on KTorrent.) Of course, I have absolutely no issues with wired connections. This is odd, since my laptop comes with a broadcom ethernet card, and I'd read about problems with that over the years. In fact, when I ordered the laptop, I made sure it came with a Intel wifi chip. Oh, on a related note - I tried this last night at home. I fired up VMWare and loaded my XP image. (I created this a few years back.) I then loaded the Cisco VPN client inside of XP and connected to my corporate network. I then tested - sure enough, the host system was still on my home network, while the virtual machine was on the corporate WAN. I then loaded Remote Desktop and connected successfully to my Vista desktop followed by tightVNC connected to my openSUSE server. All is good now. This means I can connect remotely to my work without having to interrupt my connection to my home network. Now on to upgrading my wife's Win2K machine. I think I'll start by making a VM image of that machine (there's some tool to do this) and then encapsulating it inside an openSUSE system. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org