On Saturday 11 Sep 2010 14:08:09 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
Dear Anne,
Let us tackle the issues one at a time. Let me summarise first. 1. You have two wireless cards a "on board" one and an usb one? Yes
2. onboard one never worked. (it did not work in fedora either) Correct. It may also be relevant that at one point I got a strange message from logwatch, and was told to report it to the kernel bugzilla. They indicated that it was connected with the wireless, and told me to apply a patch and recompile the kernel (as far as I can remember correctly). I told them that that was beyond my expertise unless they could point me to documentation. They didn't.
3. the usb one worked and now seems to have stopped?
To be honest, I never tried shutting off the wired, so I don't know whether wpa-supplicant was doing its thing or not. At some point this afternoon the green light came on again on the usb one. ifconfig now shows its mac address, but both RX and TX are 0 packets.
by the way half of the people that replied to this are on #opensuse-kde it may be helpful to ask there too.
Good idea. I'll do that, thanks. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org