On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Nino Novak wrote:

I want my network connections starting automatically after booting on my toshiba laptop. However, when configuring it with yast it only works until rebooting. Under "Device Activation" I tried "At Boot Time", "On Cable connection", and "On Hotplug" without success. Even "Manually" does not enable me to ifup eth0 (instead it says "Interface eth0 is not available").

Strangely, the "External Zone" setting in yast's Network Card Setup seems to get lost after rebooting (and is set to "No zone, All Traffic Blocked"). When I re-run yast's Network Card Configuration and only change this firewall zone setting, everything works again, and the network is set up automatically, or at least I am able to ifup eth0 manually.

Any hint how to enable automatic network start? Or at least manual start (with ifup) without having to launch yast every time?

TIA Nino

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Nino Novak wrote:

I want my network connections starting automatically after booting on my toshiba laptop. However, when configuring it with yast it only works until rebooting. Under "Device Activation" I tried "At Boot Time", "On Cable connection", and "On Hotplug" without success. Even "Manually" does not enable me to ifup eth0 (instead it says "Interface eth0 is not available").

Strangely, the "External Zone" setting in yast's Network Card Setup seems to get lost after rebooting (and is set to "No zone, All Traffic Blocked"). When I re-run yast's Network Card Configuration and only change this firewall zone setting, everything works again, and the network is set up automatically, or at least I am able to ifup eth0 manually.

Any hint how to enable automatic network start? Or at least manual start (with ifup) without having to launch yast every time?

TIA Nino

Both my Toshiba laptops connect on boot. The only time they don't is if they have been unused for a while or when they have been shutdown while connected to a different network and then started when at my usual network. (Here network manager loses the setting to use a wep hex key - not always, but sometimes). my /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ath0 is: 13:01 alchemy/etc/sysconfig/network> sudo cat ifcfg-ath0 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' BROADCAST='' ETHTOOL_OPTIONS='' INTERFACETYPE='wlan' IPADDR='' MTU='' NAME='AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter' NETMASK='' NETWORK='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' USERCONTROL='yes' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH='' WIRELESS_EAP_MODE='' WIRELESS_ESSID='skyline' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='xxxxxxxxxx' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID='' WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='xxxx_your_passphrase_xxxx' If you are using wpa-tkip, then you need to also configure wpa-supplicant. To set up wpa_supplicant.conf, do the following: wpa_passphrase "your_ESSID" "Some_Decent_PassPhrase_of_up_64_Characters" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and add the following lines into the network section: key_mgmt=WPA-PSK # proto=WPA proto=RSN Uncomment the proto=WPA line (and comment out the RSN line) to enable WPA1. Leave as is for WPA2 (stronger encryption). If it is an older Toshiba, the opensuse madwifi drivers are fine. If you have a newer atheros card in the laptop, you will have the best luck with the madwifi drivers from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/schmolle1980/ Hope that helps. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org