On 23/11/13 16:48, john wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:10:52 john wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:27:31 Basil Chupin wrote:
Last night I installed 13.1 on my (new) laptop and I was able to use the WLAN for several hours downloading the upgrades to 13.1, as well as browsing the 'net.
However, this morning I have no WLAN connection :-( .
I am stumped as to why WLAN disappeared, and I don't know what to check and where (although I did check Network in YaST - but don't know what should appear there anyway).
Can anyone please provide a suggestion or two as to where I should look to get WLAN working again?
The WLAN is an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300. I have installed 13.1 on an older Asus notebook, I have both an ethernet & wireless connection, for the last couple of days I have stuck with ethernet for a range of downloads, and haven't needed to use the wireless.
I had a look at my Yast Network Settings, it shows the ethernet controller with my fixed ip address (192.168.1.x) and the wireles wifi as DHCP. However it also gives a warning that Yast cannot edit the settings as the Network is currently controlled by Network Manager, rather than ifup.
My desktop is KDE and I can access the Network Manager from the panel icon. Hovering the mouse over the icon shows the ethernet is connected while wifi is shown as not connected. Clicking on the icon brings up a window showing connections, From there you can go into the wireless through manage connections or by clicking on the wireless ssid .
There are probably similar steps if you are using another desktop.
Hope this gives some pointers.
Further, I note that the documentation in the opensuse reference manual is quite comprehensive. Documentation has been moved to http://activedoc.opensuse.org/
Wireless Lan is covered in Ch.24, http://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/opensuse-reference/chapter-24-wireless-la...
Hope this helps.
John
Thanks, John. This chapter will now occupy my time for some time :-) . I just hope that it will provide the answer as to why overnight the wi-fi suddenly stopped working. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.3 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org