On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Lars Müller wrote:

Good luck cowboy

Hey You're stealing my salutation. ... Clearly you've got good taste. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Lars Müller wrote:

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Good luck cowboy

Well, I was barking up the wrong tree ... With help from the list I was able to eliminate a software update as the culprit in my wireless being disabled. This lead me to try to bring up the interface manually: ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 "rfkill list" showed the interface to be hard blocked even though the wireless button on the laptop was "On". After unblocking I could enable the interface again with networkmanager and all was well. Sorry for the red herring. Thanks! -- Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Thank you all who have replied thus far. I have another question. These are the updates that occurred between the time the wireless worked and the time it stopped working. None of these look too likely to cause a wireless problem to me. Before I start undoing things, does anyone see anything here that might cause the wireless to go down? libopencv2_3-2.3.1a-7.3 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:11 PM CST libgstreamer-0_10-0-32bit-0.10.35-65.1 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:10 PM CST handbrake-cli-0.9.5-2.12 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:10 PM CST handbrake-gtk-0.9.5-2.12 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:08 PM CST wxcam-1.0.7-5.30 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:06 PM CST libjasper1-1.900.1-146.147.1 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:06 PM CST libjasper1-32bit-1.900.1-146.147.1 Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:05:04 PM CST Is it very likely that there is a hardware problem? How might I rule that out? What other culprit might I look for? -- Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org