Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday evening, when I got home from work, I fired up my laptop.  After a 
while, I went to check messages and found it wasn't on the intraweb. I looked 
and saw KNetworkManager wasn't running in the system tray.

Restarting it by going to root and typing in the command did nothing.

I - being a good Windows user - rebooted a few times for good measure. I also 
rebooted my D-Link router, which has been working fine with this laptop since 
I got in in July '05. 

This morning I got on and the same thing. I could not connect to my SSID, even 
with KNetworkManager now running. I COULD connect to my neighbors' 
unencrypted WiFi networks. 

Looking at /tail var log messages I got nothing about the etherweb or even 
anything about lost tokens in the ethernet:

sith:/home/kai # tail /var/log/messages
Feb 22 04:34:11 sith SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
Feb 22 04:34:21 sith kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): starting (version 2.12.1), pid 3952 
user 'kai'
Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved 
address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a 
read-only configuration source at position 0
Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved 
address "xml:readwrite:/home/kai/.gconf" to a writable configuration source 
at position 1
Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved 
address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
Feb 22 04:38:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): GConf server is not in use, shutting 
down.
Feb 22 04:38:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Exiting
sith:/home/kai #             

Not sure what gconf is, but I don't use Gnome, so I am not sure if I need to 
care.

In any case, I finally got it running by completely re-entering my credentials 
for the WEP key. (The WiFi is also locked down by MAC address and only allows 
a few laptops on.)

What happened?

What else could I have done?

What should I do to prevent this?


(I actually did lookup GConf - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GConf - and see it 
is sort of like the registry. I wonder if regedit will work...)

-- 
kai

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