On Wed January 2 2008 14:52:18 GR wrote:
I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it.
The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as per instructions on the web. I managed to connect to my wireless lan (802.11g, hidden SSID, WPA-2 encryption) fine with KNetworkManager.
However, since that one and only time, I've never been able to connect to my wireless LAN again.
KNetworkManager keeps on telling me that it's found a "new" wireless network (*MY* wireless network) but I can't connect to it.
I found that it takes sometimes 3 or 4 attempts to pass the 36% (or 38%?, anyway phase 2 out of 5 according to /var/log/NetworkManager) progress mark and succeed connecting. Sometimes it does it at the first attempt. I could not find a pattern and I could not find any useful information in the logs. Another annoying behaviour is that KNetworkManager sometimes does not "see" my home network nor the neighbour's, only some "default" (we broadcast the SSID). I tried to wait a little to see if my network was not announcing itself immediately, but no luck. After switching to Windows to verify that the signal was good and coming back, KNetworkManager "saw" all the networks and connected right at the 2nd try. I am still seeing if there is a pattern, so I know how to report a bug. -- Carlos FL "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org