On 24/11/13 01:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[11-23-13 09:36]: [...] *much* quoting removed 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 :-) .
*since* you are unable to connect in w8 nor openSUSE, after being able and making no changes, the problem is *probably* of a mechanical nature.
A conclusion I also came to except that.......
Can you see other wireless signals?
...."it" sees other networks which my wife's Samsung tablet also sees so it isn't a mechanical thing. But what is puzzling is that it sees a network which has a garbled name (all zeros/alphas) which I assume to be the home network which my wife's tablet (and the TV and DVD player) connects to effortlessly. A mismatch of signals/wavelenghts but why?
Have you tried windoz trouble-shooting routines?
Yep, and it is as useful as tits on a bull. Tells me that there is a problem but doesn't tell me where or how to fix it. I fought this Windows 8/8.1 pile of horse manure for 4 days and finally gave up and installed 13.1 - without creating a Recovery USB disc as the damn pile of steaming elephant droppings wouldn't allow me!
Have you contacted the vendor or their help-desk remembering not to mention linux in any way?
No, at least not yet. 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