[opensuse] 11.4 Wireless stopped working
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:01:57AM -0600, Mike Grau wrote: [ 8< ]
I believe, but do not know, that this problem started after some updates. I also had the factory repo enabled at the time. Stupidly,
No, this is siply crazy. :/
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.
Remove everything than the 11.4 oss, non-oss and update repos. You might need/ have the ati or nvidia repo active too. Then call as root user: zypper dup and you'll have to acknowledge that some packages are replaced by older versions.
How can I find out what was updated and roll back the updates? Or what other steps might I take to resolve the problem?
With the steps above you're going back. Before anything happens you're asked back. Good luck cowboy Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:40:34 +0100
Lars Müller
I believe, but do not know, that this problem started after some updates. I also had the factory repo enabled at the time. Stupidly,
No, this is siply crazy. :/
Nice catch, Lars :-) ... don't know how I missed "factory" but it slipped right past me! Carl -- 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
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Lars Müller
wrote: Good luck cowboy
Hey
You're stealing my salutation.
When have you last seen your coffee mug? I guess you know I'm taking everything. ;)
Clearly you've got good taste.
Hehe, yes. Isn't teaching this the goal of this list? Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Lars Müller
wrote: 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
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Carl Hartung
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Greg Freemyer
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Lars Müller
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Mike Grau