Can I change temporarily to ifup (in case I have problems), and then on going back to NetworkManager, nothing changed there? Thanks Oliver On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:28:39PM -0700, michael getachew wrote:
hey there i'm connected to wireless network(wpa2 ) and i've connected to multiple types of wireless networks without an issue. my suggestion is to first try connecting via yast network settings(choose the traditional method with ifup option instead of network manager). at least that's how i got mine working at first. network manager should work too it's just that in the past i have run into situations where it wouldn't work but ifup would.
--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Oliver Kullmann
wrote: From: Oliver Kullmann
Subject: Re: [opensuse] can't connect to open WLAN (everybody else can) To: "Sven Burmeister" Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 9:31 AM On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:52:16PM +0000, Oliver Kullmann wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:55:09AM +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010, 20:40:56 schrieb Oliver Kullmann:
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:53:A8:FF:50
ESSID:"eduroam"
The first network in the list is encrypted, but it is the second which is supported by the host organisation, which is open, and to which I can't connect. (Actually, also for the first network I have the secrets, but I can't connect.)
I guess you ran into: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209673 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226140
Okay, now I try to connect to eduroam (which worked from several places in the UK, but there using WPA2). I get
iwlist eth1 scan eth1 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:53:A8:FF:50 ESSID:"eduroam" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality:5/5 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : WEP-104 Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Unfortunately (and "as usual", I would like to add), different people use different notations, and they don't care about a translation. So above we find "IE: WPA Version 1". I don't know what "IE" means, but lets assume it translates into the menu point "Security" in the KNetworkManager. Then there I find
None LEAP Dynamic WEP WPA/WPA2 Personal WPA/WPA2 Enterprise
What is the connection? And then above we find "WEP-104" and "TKIP" which isn't found anywhere in any of the various menus when you try the different possibilities??
Finally, apparently it can be found out automatically what kind of connection we have --- why does that network-manager then ask me ?????
Apparently other network-manager do exactly that, and thus you can't also ask other people what they entered --- since apparently nobody enters anything anywhere, but things just work (on windows, mac, and other Linux').
Hope somebody can shed some light on these mysteries (even better, if in the future that network-manager would gain some intelligence).
Frustrated Oliver
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