[opensuse] Wireless network setup
In openSuSE 11.0 with KDE4.0 my wireless network card seems to be detected, but I have troubles using KNetworkManager to connect to my wireless router. Sometimes it works and I have access to router http server, but sometimes (most of the times) it does not work and freezes for long periods of time. I have decided to try to connect from the CLI, without KNetworkManager, but I don't know what are the steps involved. Could you help please? -- Bogdan Cristea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:59:29 am Bogdan Cristea wrote:
In openSuSE 11.0 with KDE4.0 my wireless network card seems to be detected, but I have troubles using KNetworkManager to connect to my wireless router. Sometimes it works and I have access to router http server, but sometimes (most of the times) it does not work and freezes for long periods of time. I have decided to try to connect from the CLI, without KNetworkManager, but I don't know what are the steps involved. Could you help please?
-- Bogdan Cristea
The classic way with ifup is still available. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
In openSuSE 11.0 with KDE4.0 my wireless network card seems to be detected, but I have troubles using KNetworkManager to connect to my wireless router. Sometimes it works and I have access to router http server, but sometimes (most of the times) it does not work and freezes for long periods of time. I have decided to try to connect from the CLI, without KNetworkManager, but I don't know what are the steps involved. Could you help please?
I tried googling "Bogdan Cristea Wireless Manufacturer openSuSE 11.0" but I couldn't find out who your wireless card manufacturer was or what driver you have installed -- Bummer. Have you tried looking in "/usr/share/doc/packages/nameofyourwirelessdriver" ? Most of the time a step-by-step guide is hidden right there. -- 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
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 09:01:36 David C. Rankin wrote:
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
In openSuSE 11.0 with KDE4.0 my wireless network card seems to be detected, but I have troubles using KNetworkManager to connect to my wireless router. Sometimes it works and I have access to router http server, but sometimes (most of the times) it does not work and freezes for long periods of time. I have decided to try to connect from the CLI, without KNetworkManager, but I don't know what are the steps involved. Could you help please?
I tried googling "Bogdan Cristea Wireless Manufacturer openSuSE 11.0" but I couldn't find out who your wireless card manufacturer was or what driver you have installed -- Bummer.
Have you tried looking in "/usr/share/doc/packages/nameofyourwirelessdriver" ? Most of the time a step-by-step guide is hidden right there.
-- 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
Is not an issue related to the driver. The card is correctly installed by openSuSE. I need to know how to setup manually the network card. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008 08:26:27 schrieb Bogdan Cristea:
Is not an issue related to the driver. The card is correctly installed by openSuSE. I need to know how to setup manually the network card.
Have a look at [1]. I've added a description on how to setup a connection manually. Helmut [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Tracking_down_wireless_problems -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Helmut Schaa
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008 08:26:27 schrieb Bogdan Cristea:
Is not an issue related to the driver. The card is correctly installed by openSuSE. I need to know how to setup manually the network card.
Have a look at [1]. I've added a description on how to setup a connection manually.
Helmut
Thank you for this tutorial, it's well written. However, in my case even if 'iwlist wlan0 scan' returns several cells, I am unable to connect to my router. After 'iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid', the output of 'iwconfig wlan0' looks like this: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my_essid" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:7E:FA:F5:FC Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Link Quality, Signal level and Noise level are all zero. Why am I able to scan the network, but unable to connect to a chosen cell? Should I consider to use a different driver (with ndiswrapper)? -- Bogdan Cristea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 12:12:03 Bogdan Cristea wrote:
Thank you for this tutorial, it's well written. However, in my case even if 'iwlist wlan0 scan' returns several cells, I am unable to connect to my router. After 'iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid', the output of 'iwconfig wlan0' looks like this: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my_essid" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:7E:FA:F5:FC Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Link Quality, Signal level and Noise level are all zero. Why am I able to scan the network, but unable to connect to a chosen cell? Should I consider to use a different driver (with ndiswrapper)?
-- Bogdan Cristea
Bogdan,
Don't forget to ask for an IP address. ;-)
Here is a little script I wrote to help me connect to my college wireless
network. It may help you.
The script is run as root. Name it whatever you want (in my case,
bcc-connect).
To connect to the default hard-coded essid, just incant `bcc-connect`
To connect to any other essid, just incant `bcc-connect <essid-to-connect-to>`
To change the default hard-coded essid, edit the line:
iwconfig eth1 essid "Student-Wireless"
Note that using dhclient is *far* more reliable than dhcpcd for unknown
reasons.
HTH,
Mark
<code>
root@pacifica:/root/bin> cat bcc-connect
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2008 Mark A. Taff
Am Mi 23 Jul 2008 21:12:03 CEST schrieb Bogdan Cristea
However, in my case even if 'iwlist wlan0 scan' returns several cells, I am unable to connect to my router. After 'iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid', the output of 'iwconfig wlan0' looks like this: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my_essid" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:7E:FA:F5:FC Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Link Quality, Signal level and Noise level are all zero. Why am I able to scan the network, but unable to connect to a chosen cell?
Could you please try 'iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid' again, wait a few seconds and attach the output of dmesg afterwards? That should give us some hints. Thanks, Helmut -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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