[opensuse] openSUSE 11.3 - nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found - Problem
Hello openSUSE folks, Just did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop today. Everything works but my wireless connection. I'm using Realtek provided driver for my Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n chipset. It worked perfectly in the previous openSUSE 11.2 installation. I tried to troubleshoot why it isn't working in 11.3 When I execute ifup wlan0 it gives me this type of message: Starting wpa_supplicant nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found Failed to initialize driver interface I'm using desktop kernel. May be something relevant to my case was disabled in it? Should I change it to the plain kernel? Thank you in advance for any help or hints. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 16/07/10 17:05, Alex wrote:
Hello openSUSE folks, Just did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop today. Everything works but my wireless connection. I'm using Realtek provided driver for my Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n chipset. It worked perfectly in the previous openSUSE 11.2 installation. I tried to troubleshoot why it isn't working in 11.3 When I execute ifup wlan0 it gives me this type of message:
Starting wpa_supplicant
nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
Failed to initialize driver interface
I'm using desktop kernel. May be something relevant to my case was disabled in it? Should I change it to the plain kernel?
Thank you in advance for any help or hints.
Alex I also have a Toshiba Satellite with the same chip. The latest driver from Realtek was installed manually by downloading it from the product support site. WiFi cannot be activated using yast as an ip address cannot be obtained. The only way is to remove all settings from yast and to manually activate the connection using iwconfig and dhclient.
Has anyone been able to activate the connection at boot and if so any hints will be appreciated? Thanks. Sudhir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Could you please provide more details on how you overcame this issue. Thanks in advance, Alex On 07/17/10 00:01, Linux_Sle wrote:
Hello openSUSE folks, Just did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop today. Everything works but my wireless connection. I'm using Realtek provided driver for my Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n chipset. It worked perfectly in the previous openSUSE 11.2 installation. I tried to troubleshoot why it isn't working in 11.3 When I execute ifup wlan0 it gives me this type of message:
Starting wpa_supplicant
nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
Failed to initialize driver interface
I'm using desktop kernel. May be something relevant to my case was disabled in it? Should I change it to the plain kernel?
Thank you in advance for any help or hints.
Alex I also have a Toshiba Satellite with the same chip. The latest driver from Realtek was installed manually by downloading it from the
On 16/07/10 17:05, Alex wrote: product support site. WiFi cannot be activated using yast as an ip address cannot be obtained. The only way is to remove all settings from yast and to manually activate the connection using iwconfig and dhclient.
Has anyone been able to activate the connection at boot and if so any hints will be appreciated?
Thanks.
Sudhir
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On 19/07/10 21:13, Alex wrote:
Could you please provide more details on how you overcame this issue.
Thanks in advance,
Alex
On 07/17/10 00:01, Linux_Sle wrote:
Hello openSUSE folks, Just did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop today. Everything works but my wireless connection. I'm using Realtek provided driver for my Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n chipset. It worked perfectly in the previous openSUSE 11.2 installation. I tried to troubleshoot why it isn't working in 11.3 When I execute ifup wlan0 it gives me this type of message:
Starting wpa_supplicant
nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
Failed to initialize driver interface
I'm using desktop kernel. May be something relevant to my case was disabled in it? Should I change it to the plain kernel?
Thank you in advance for any help or hints.
Alex I also have a Toshiba Satellite with the same chip. The latest driver from Realtek was installed manually by downloading it from the
On 16/07/10 17:05, Alex wrote: product support site. WiFi cannot be activated using yast as an ip address cannot be obtained. The only way is to remove all settings from yast and to manually activate the connection using iwconfig and dhclient.
Has anyone been able to activate the connection at boot and if so any hints will be appreciated?
Thanks.
Sudhir
There is a solution to this problem after doing some research on google. The drivers can be downloaded from Realtek's website. Uncompress and run the usual make and make install commands. Edit the "boot.local" file in /etc/init.d and add the following commands: modprobe r8192se_pci iwconfig wlan0 essid YourWifiEssid dhclient -v wlan0 Using this technique, the wifi connection is up after the pc has booted. The commands above can also be run from the command line. Type in the essid of your router in place of "YourWifiEssid". The Realtek drivers are available from: http://218.210.127.131/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true under the Linux section. Regards. Sudhir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Perhaps https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625403 ? The patch (for one of the network scripts) attached there should solve the problem. HTH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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