On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:29 PM, <kanenas@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
don't know which suse you got, but my 64bit 11.1/kde3 had constant problems with knetworkmanager in a vostro 1710. solved 99.9% of them by switching to ifup/ifdown and installing wicd. sometimes it takes a bit of a delay to make a new connection (especially if the laptop wakes up from a suspend), but it always works:) The only real downside is that wicd does not really hide the various passwords, if one clicks on the entry the dots go away and the pword is shown!!!!! d.
+1 to switching to wicd. Prior to 11.3, wifi was very reliable for me - running install_bcm43xx_firmware was the only step needed to get my bcm4318 card to work. With 11.3, I had to disable knetwork manager and go with wicd to get a connection. Using 64bit also, kde4.x. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org