On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 19:36 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
I needed totest changes in the WIRED setup for the laptop, and therefore disabled wireless operation of the ROUTER I did nothing to any wireless setting of the laptop itself. When I finished, I removed the cable connection, rebooted again, and thought to ascertain that wireless operation was again in order.
It isn't. Networkmanager, for example, says that the connection to the AP is "Activating", and the signal is strong. "Enable networking" is checked. "Enable wireless" is also checked, but it is greyed out.
In YaST>Network Settings>Overview, both wired and wireless controllers are listed, ONLY when in General Options, ifup is chosen. When User controlled with Networkmanager is chosen, only the wired controller is listed; I do not remember anything like that previously. Also in this case, the lower window in Overview (the description of the wireless controller) is greyed out, as are the buttons for Add. Edit, and Delete at the bottom.
I have rebooted several times, without success. For that matter, when a similar problem occured recently and healed itself after a reboot as suggested by another user of this list, I am sure that the successful boot was the first I had tried; in other words, I am not convinced that restoration of wireless networking behaves altogether rationally, even in terms of officially expected behavior.
Can someone see what is happening here, and offer a clue on how to fix it?
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Hi Stan, this may not be the answer that you are looking for, but try going to manage connections in networkmanager to see if your wireless connection is listed under the wireless tab. If it isn't, then click Add. When the kde control module dialog box displays, look near the top for SSID, and to the right find a button marked Scan. Click on that button to see which networks are available. Click on the network of your choice, then you will have to input the type of security and password on the previous dialog box. If nothing shows up when you scan, your radio probably isn't on. Check to make sure that the wireless on switch is on. If it isn't, turn it on and reboot. That's enuff for this post, try it and post back. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org