Re: [opensuse-factory] W-Fi in 13.2 (ie Factory)

3 Sep 2014

      On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:48:48 +1000
Basil Chupin  wrote:
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On 28/08/14 22:53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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* Graham P Davis  [08-28-14 01:46]:
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I made a clean installation from the x86_64 DVD iso using various
snapshots up to 20140820. In each case, "wicked" refused to
function but NetworkManager worked first time every time.
And fwiw, I have *never* been able to get NM to work over the last
several versions and have always been able to get ifup/down/config
and now wicked to work.  Go figure....
See my reply to Neil. There is a YouTube video on how to get wi-fi
under NM working for 13.1. For 13.2 it is basically the same but one
has to take into account that KDE 4.13.3 has caused some changes in
the panel (the applet for NM seems to have disappeared - at least
here it has :-) ) and that the Network Settings has been modified but
still do the same job.
If you want I can send you screen captures of what I have.
If that's the 30-minute film then that's not what I want. I need a
simple document that explains how to set up WICD. I assume that someone
has updated the SDB document (https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Wicd) for
13.2 but, of course, has not yet made it generally available to the
public.

I've tried using the above documentation but many parts such as using
"ifup" for example and also the commands near the bottom of the "usage"
paragraph. Needless to say, I still couldn't get WICD to work after
using this documentation.

It's possible that I missed the references in the YaST help panels for
13.2 on how to proceed with setting this up but that's the first place
where such documentation should be. Come to that, by selecting "wicked"
in the YaST setup I would have expected the main settings to be
correctly set automatically.

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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.13.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.11.10; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver); 
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
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