Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just bought a Netgear RangeMax router, and I've been completely unable
to connect to it under suse10.2.

I set it up under XP (dual-booting from this same laptop after
struggling with it for several days using KWiFiManager, iwconfig, etc.

ipw3945 (the driver for my laptop's on-board Intel 3945 interface)
appears to be running, but iwlist says there's no interface that
supports scanning, and iwconfig says there's no interface with wireless
extensions.

Everything I can find on the web implies that there should be an eth1
(eth0 is the on-board Ethernet interface), but there is no such.

I installed KWiFiManager hoping it could help, but all it says is "No
Interface" in the titlebar, and "DISABLED" in the status area.  If I try
to bring up the configuration editor, it asks for the root password,
then immediately returns to the main window with no message or error.

This same laptop works perfectly when I boot into XP, so I'm obviously
not understanding something about setting up under suse.

The router is set up as "ad hoc", WPA-PSK (AES).  Yast won't allow me to
set the passphrase under ad hoc mode; it only accepts it under "managed"
mode.  Could this be the problem? What could I do to fix it?

Can anyone help?

John Perry
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