Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 March 2010 00:12:19 Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> Oh now this is interesting! I too have found that my wlan0 device on my 
> laptop has stopped mysteriously on me a few times! Rebooting (even with 
> a power cycle) back into SuSE11.2 would not restore it, nor would an 
> rcnetwork restart. I don't use the NetworkManager BTW, rather I have 
> stuck with the old ifup, ifdown routine. I kinda figure it might be a 
> hardware failure at first. But then each time I have rebooted my laptop 
> to Windoz XP and did a diagnostic and repair on my networks, I would 
> find my wlan0 device working again! So far that has been my solution, 
> but now you have made me suspicious of SuSE... Definitely weird!
 Marc, what brand/model is your laptop?  My Dell Inspiron has been giving me a 
similar problem and it turns out the wireless switch is the culprit.  It uses 
Fn+F2 to turn it on/off.  For some reason, sometimes when the laptop is 
shutdown the wireless gets turned off.  Then nothing but Fn+F2 will turn it 
back on.  You can check it by booting in windows and see if it will fire up 
the wireless.  In my case it wouldnt without doing the Fn key stuff.

BTW, it has happened after an update/reboot.

Richard
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