Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1945 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:10:42 on Wednesday Wednesday 23 December 2009, "Ken Schneider - 
openSUSE" <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 07:00 PM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > At 00:39:18 on Wednesday Wednesday 23 December 2009, "Ken Schneider -
> >
> > openSUSE" <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 12/22/2009 04:49 PM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and 
wrote:
> > > > Until now, I have been using my notebook machine with a wired
> > > > connection to a router. Today I tried to use its wireless
> > > > controller (Intel 5300), but failed.
> > > >
> > > > The controller is recognized by openSuSE, and I was able to
> > > > configure it (I don't swear that I configured it correctly). Since
> > > > it was seen without any  action from me, apparently its driver is
> > > > also in the kernel. But I was surprised that I didn't have to apply
> > > > the firmware to it; I don't see how YaST could have managed that;
> > > > perhaps that's why I have not been able to reach the network
> > > > through this interface.
> > > >
> > > > The configuration screen contained many more options than what I
> > > > see in the Network Services screens, and I don't know how to find
> > > > those configuration screens so I could post here what I did at that
> > > > stage, the details of which I do not remember entirely.
> > > >
> > > > Help?
> > >
> > > Let's cover some of the obvious.
> > >
> > > Correct SSID set
> > > Correct auth type set and passwd.
> >
> > Those were points that I left empty, hoping to come back to them. But
> > I don't see how to find where they are.
>
> Meaning you don't know what they are or where they are set in the
> wireless router.

I know what the SSDI is in the router; I have verified it by opening the 
router's configuration in its web server. I left it blank in the WiFi 
card's configuration because I wasn't sure how to handle it in the case 
of access to networks other than my own. I have gone through this with 
another laptop machine (now deceased), but I don't remember what I did 
then. And now that the card's configuration dialog is gone, I don't find 
how to bring it back, or where to enter the missing items.

In the configuration, I set authorization type to "Managed". I configured 
with ifup, but it is set now for Network Manager.

The LAN is not set for either WEP or WPA; neither is necessary in my 
situation.


> Unless you set these values your wireless _will not_ work.
>
> > What I didn't understand about SSID is that all the elements in a net
> > must share the identical one. But in a laptop machine with DCHP, and
> > used for travel and expected to work with arbitrary networks of which
> > I am not the administrator, what SSID must I set?
>
> The one that is correct for the network you are on, and yes each
> network is different.
>
> > > Unless these are set correct it won't work period.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Schneider
> > > SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
>
> --
> Ken Schneider
> SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998



-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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