Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[David McMillan <skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> David McMillan wrote:
>
> >   Recap:   Laptop running 9.1Pro with a Cisco Aironet 350 card.  Worked
> > fine for home WLAN, but would not work with public hotspots
> > (particularly, tmobile).
>
>
> What I have done, is create different wifi config files and then just
> copy the appropriate one, to the wlan file. Then simply restart the
> interface.

	Which files would those be, exactly?  (Man, I wish I knew this 
stuff...)  I went poking around, and found /etc/wlan/wlan.conf, which 
looked promising, but its contents don't resemble my settings.  The 
script idea certainly sounds cool.

	In the meantime, I have found that changing my settings in YAST and 
rebooting allows me to connect problem-free to the hotspots I was 
having trouble with before, but now I can't connect to my home WLAN 
without changing YAST back, even using iwconfig from the command line 
to fix my settings.  It really seems as if YAST is conflicting with 
iwconfig, somehow.  And going into YAST every time I want to connect 
to a different wireless net seems like a really poor way of doing 
business.