On Tuesday 02 February 2010 05:06:16 John E. Perry wrote:
On 01/08/2010 07:27 PM, John E. Perry wrote:
On 01/04/2010 11:09 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 04 January 2010 14:16:39 Robert Schweikert wrote:
Oh yeah. wifi doesn't work any more. One of the 11.1 updates broke it, and I was hoping 11.2 would fix whatever that was. It's still doing the same thing it was before: knetworkmanager shows me my SSID, I click on it, it churns for a while, and comes back asking for my passphrase. I give it, and {repeat ad infinitum}.
Information about tracking NM problems can be found here:
Right, and you've got direct access to the author of that document and of knetworkmanager. Pity all those kubuntu users! If you can give me the details requested in the 'It's all KDE's fault' section of the above URL we can get you going and solve the problem for future releases.
The NetworkManager log as well as wireless hardware details should be a good first step; if you are able to connect with another NM client then DBUS dumps of both working and non-working connections would be extremely helpful.
Will
Will, everything in that section talked about either recompiling knm or trying other clients. I don't have the courage to try any others (ifup was about my limit), so I just now gave up and tried connecting to generate some messages.
I read around the kde page and selected a few log files, but even with aggressive editing it's nearly 300 lines long. I've sent it directly to you in a separate email -- hope that's not a problem. It consists of lines from dmesg, /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log, /var/log messages, and /var/log/NetworkManager. I started copying from when I disconnected the cable, and kept lines until the repetition became excessive, or until eth0 started coming up (in the case of NetworkManager).
...So, Will, after hearing nothing more for a couple of weeks, and still having no wifi after _many_ zypper up's and dup's, I finally worked up the courage to try the procedure given by Josef Wolf on 01/12/2010 (Re: [opensuse] network-manager in 11.2). I'd looked through the web pages and documents, but I'm apparently too simple-minded to figure this out on my own.
It worked! I'm finally free of Ethernet, after a month and more of having my laptop's kde desktop tied by a cat5e cable to my wooden desktop :-).
Thank you, Josef.
John Perry, via wifi again, finally.
Sorry John, I was travelling a lot in January and this got dropped on the floor. The logs that you sent me privately didn't show anything conclusive - just association timeouts. Now that you do have an alternate client, could I prevail upon you compare working and non-working wifi connections using qdbus so we can save others the hassle in future? If you go to http://userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement#It.27s_All_KDE.27s_Fault.21 and start at the paragraph beginning "If you do not build from source" you should be good. Find the 'Grotto' (right?) connection as provided by both nm- applet and knetworkmanager and send me the qdbus output. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org