On 24/11/13 01:09, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 11/23/2013 12:06 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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
OK, stupid question time. [ I haven't really been following this thread but did catch a couple replies ]
Is your WIFI on the laptop turned on?
The reason I ask is most modern laptops have a WIFI switch so that you can "turn off" the WIFI. Mine happens to be near the front edge on the left side. My WIFI has always worked perfectly, no issues at all. However, one day it wouldn't work on it's usual connection. Drove me absolutely bonkers for a couple days until I discovered that somehow the switch had gotten turned off. Possibly while taking it out of the case.
Just a thought.
Thanks Billie but yes the switch is on. If the switch is off then the "radio mast" 'icon' just below the screen is not lit. But there is another way of switching the wifi on/off apparently by using the combo of FN+F5 keys but even this hasn't got things going. Damn annoying because it was working perfectly the night before, and my wife's el cheapo tablet connects in less than a second or two to the modem/router but this tank........ The laptop came with Windows 8 pre-installed and that is showing that the wifi device is working OK (but even in W8 I cannot get a connection!) I have never had any love for wifi stuff and this isn't helping me to overcome my suspicion of wifi :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.3 & kernel 3.12.1-1 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