At 02:10:42 on Wednesday Wednesday 23 December 2009, "Ken Schneider - openSUSE" <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On 12/22/2009 07:00 PM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
At 00:39:18 on Wednesday Wednesday 23 December 2009, "Ken Schneider -
openSUSE" <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On 12/22/2009 04:49 PM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Until now, I have been using my notebook machine with a wired connection to a router. Today I tried to use its wireless controller (Intel 5300), but failed.
The controller is recognized by openSuSE, and I was able to configure it (I don't swear that I configured it correctly). Since it was seen without any action from me, apparently its driver is also in the kernel. But I was surprised that I didn't have to apply the firmware to it; I don't see how YaST could have managed that; perhaps that's why I have not been able to reach the network through this interface.
The configuration screen contained many more options than what I see in the Network Services screens, and I don't know how to find those configuration screens so I could post here what I did at that stage, the details of which I do not remember entirely.
Help?
Let's cover some of the obvious.
Correct SSID set Correct auth type set and passwd.
Those were points that I left empty, hoping to come back to them. But I don't see how to find where they are.
Meaning you don't know what they are or where they are set in the wireless router.
I know what the SSDI is in the router; I have verified it by opening the router's configuration in its web server. I left it blank in the WiFi card's configuration because I wasn't sure how to handle it in the case of access to networks other than my own. I have gone through this with another laptop machine (now deceased), but I don't remember what I did then. And now that the card's configuration dialog is gone, I don't find how to bring it back, or where to enter the missing items. In the configuration, I set authorization type to "Managed". I configured with ifup, but it is set now for Network Manager. The LAN is not set for either WEP or WPA; neither is necessary in my situation.
Unless you set these values your wireless _will not_ work.
What I didn't understand about SSID is that all the elements in a net must share the identical one. But in a laptop machine with DCHP, and used for travel and expected to work with arbitrary networks of which I am not the administrator, what SSID must I set?
The one that is correct for the network you are on, and yes each network is different.
Unless these are set correct it won't work period.
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