On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:01:57 -0600
Mike Grau
Hello all,
A few months ago I bought a Lenovo G560 laptop and was delighted to find I could easily ditch Ubuntu since when I installed openSUSE 11.4, the wireless "just worked" using the network management widget and KDE (4.6.0 it looks like).
A couple of days ago my unsecured wireless connection stopped working on this machine (my wife's laptop with some other OS connects). I cannot "enable wireless"; the checkbox to enable it is greyed out or immediately the checkbox will not stayed checked. I have tried using ifup also without success also:
wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless N openSUSE 11.4 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I believe, but do not know, that this problem started after some updates. I also had the factory repo enabled at the time. Stupidly, I didn't pay attention to what was updating as 11.4 had been so trouble free and rock solid since the installation that I had become complacent.
How can I find out what was updated and roll back the updates? Or what other steps might I take to resolve the problem?
Thanks! -- Mike
Hi Mike, First thing is generate a reverse chronological list of packages installed: as regular user: rpm -qa --last > ~/Desktop/updateslist.txt Next is to look for error log entries containing 'wlan0': ('su -' to root privileges or use sudo) cat /var/log/messages | grep wlan0 | less (scroll up or down using arrow and PgUp/PgDn keys; tap 'q' to quit 'less') Next is same but looking for warnings: cat /var/log/warn | grep wlan0 | less Another clue finding option is, as regular user: locate .rpmsave You'll need to have the correct cli utilities package installed to run this and it will have to index things before it will return meaningful results... you can force an immediate indexing by running 'updatedb' hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org