Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I
can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work
immediately.

I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to
encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.

Option 1: I select yast2 modules->Network Devices->Network Card
then select my wireless card, click on Next, and that gives me the
chance to provide an SSID and key for the card.

Option 2: I select Internet and Network->Wireless Network. This gives
met he chance to create multiple configuration sets with SSID and
encryption keys (and multiple keys per SSID too).

Unfortunately, which option 2 looks like exactly what I need, it
reliably crashes the machine totally when I try to activate anything.

Option 1, by contrast, sometimes crashes the machine when it's
restarting the network services, but on a reboot, the changes seem to
have worked consistently.

Is there something wrong with my system that's confusing option 2? Can
I find out what files this thing is writing to and create them by hand
in such a way that it scans multiple configurations to find a workable
one?

Or do I just have to configure a single network by hand each time I
move around? (That's not a big deal, it's just not as elegant as it
could be)

TIA
Cheers
Simon


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