On 25/11/13 23:59, James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
1. are we supposed to be using the network manager or ifup? and
I prefer network manager for my notebook.
I cannot argue one way or the other re this but I can say that I got my wifi on the laptop working by activating the Network Manager - although I believe that I have never used it until then but used ifup (whatever).
2. is the firewall supposed to be on or off? It's a good idea to have it on, but that won't affect your connection. It can always be turned on or off later.
Again, I won't contest this because the laptop is now working with the firewall active because I do not know which of these, the firewall or the network manager, was contributing to my problem. But I accept what you said and dare not put it to to a test until I have to again re-install the whole sheebang on the laptop :-) . I have spent some 6 solid days and nights on this laptop to get the wifi working and now that it is I am inclined to accept whatever people say about the necessity or otherwise of the firewall :-D . 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