Jens Nixdorf wrote:
Hi David,
Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 schrieb David C. Rankin:
That is really strange. Is your wireless card an Atheros? You should be able to use knetwork manager. I presume you have the madwifi driver installed? This is my biggest concern with 11.1 and the laptops and Atheros chipsets. openSuSE 11.0 totally ignored the people running the newer Atheros cards and to date there is no working madwifi for the AR242x 802.11abg from Novell. Thankfully, in build service under both /home/schmole and /home/appleonkel there is an updated version of the driver that works.
No, its a Centrino-Notebook, therefore it has an intel-3945-ABG wlan- card. This is nearly a standard today and 11.1B5 does recognize it correctly. The Networkmanager seems to recognize it too, because i get these little popups, where networkmanager tells that it has found my access-point. But i cannot configure any security-feature like WPA, because the window for kde-networksettings shows absolutely nothing and doesnt save all manually added settings. And the corresponding applet in the taskbar brings plasma down in 9 of 10 times.
Have you tried configuring the knetwork manager app in kde4? Sometimes you really have to look hard at all the different config tabs and settings, but at least in 11.0 I could set wpa, etc. without any problems. I have a link on my site that I use to troubleshoot wireless. your welcome to it.
Thanks, i did found it, but it doesnt work.
regards, Jens
Jens, I'm not that familiar with the intel wireless and wpa. If it uses wpasupplicant for wpa connections, you can manually create a wpa_supplicant.conf to work with your station. This may just apply to the atheros setup, but you can check: Configuring WPA: # To set up WPA config wpa_passphrase "your_ESSID" "Some_Decent_PassPhrase_of_up_64_Characters" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and add the lines into the network section created above: key_mgmt=WPA-PSK # proto=WPA proto=RSN Uncomment the proto=WPA line (and comment out the RSN line) to enable WPA. Leave as is for WPA2 (stronger encryption). A sample wpa_supplicant.conf will look like: # allow update of config file update_config=1 # default socket directory and group ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel # IEEE 802.1X/EAPOL version (set to 1 if frames dropped) eapol_version=1 # AP scanning/selection (0,1,2 def=1) ap_scan=2 # network blocks network={ disabled=0 id_str="home" ssid="skyline" scan_ssid=0 mode=0 proto=WPA #proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP priority=2 psk=660d3df4f82cd1f9838a5ce0f4f1dd1d40cd5af93317bc31f3b698b13b569bf2c } It is also running as $GID wheel, so you might try adding yourself to the wheel group. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 510 Ochiltree Street | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 | Telephone: (936) 715-9333 | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 | http://www.opensuse.org/ www.rankinlawfirm.com | -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org