https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804861 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804861#c0 Summary: WiFi is flakey on Dell Studio 1537 after suspend Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dfreeman@ieee.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 I'm guessing this is specific to my hardware platform, or you would have been inundated with reports by now. Dell Studio 1537 laptop. Core 2 Duo, AMD graphics. WiFi has been really flakey for at least the 12.x series. In the past, I've had it drop out and stop communicating with the router, then attempt to reconnect, and get stuck and fail. This I think was due to weak signal strength. Presently, the major symptoms are as follows. I connect to a router, use it successfully for a while, then I suspend to RAM. After waking up, the network has disconnected, and it gets stuck on reconnection. It hangs on either "configuring interface" or "authenticating", as reported by the Network Manager in the system tray. Sometimes this happens after a suspend to disc, but I think it's less frequent. My work-around is to, firstly, toggle the hardware WiFi enable to off, then a few seconds later back to on. This may allow the Network Manager to connect, or it may take a few more goes. Sometimes I have to suspend to RAM and wake it up again, before this will work. This may or may not be related, but X sometimes gets very slow after suspending, and consumes a lot of CPU. Suspending again doesn't seem to fix it, I have to reboot. I also get a lot of hangs where KDE/Plasma stop responding, and sometimes they don't come back so that I have to kill my session and lose my work. I tend to blame the proprietary AMD drivers, which are of grossly substandard quality (and everybody knows it). I suggest that the way to reproduce this is to get access to any of the Dell Studio 15 series and install openSUSE. I have reinstalled several times, as part of version upgrades and the like, and it happens with every installation. Again, it may require ATI drivers. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Acquire Dell Studio 15 2. Install openSUSE 12.2 3. Connect to WiFi, suspend to RAM -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.