Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 21:28 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
> > Gabriel Stein wrote:
> >     
> > > Are you using KDE or Gnome? On KDE I use the KNetworkManager, the
> > > globe icon, right button -> new connection -> wlan0(example) and after
> > > will appear the wireless networks avaliable.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > In OpenSUSE 10.3, I could scan for available WiFi networks and then select one 
> > > > > to connect to.  This function appears to be missing (broken?) in 11.0.  How do 
> > > > > I scan for networks in OpenSUSE 11.0?
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > Sorry, I'm using KDE.and it connected fine to my own network.  However, 
> > I rebooted the computer and now the other networks around here are 
> > showing.  Weird.
> >     
>
>   What are you running for a wireless NIC?
>
>   
It's an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 BG NIC.  I had to go into the NIC 
configuration and specify No Encryption for Authentication mode.  After 
I set that, scanning worked.  But then it somehow got changed back to 
WEP - Open and again stopped showing the other networks.  Hopefully it 
will stay set this time.




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