Wireless Under 10.0RC1
Hello I installed the first OpenSuse beta when it came out and then dumped it when I was unable to get my NetGear WG511 (prism54) wireless card working. I let several versions go by and then today decided to try again with 10.0 RC1. Same issue... my wireless still doesn't work. This time I did an upgrade from 9.3 (which was working fine). The card gets the firmware loaded, it gets ifconfigged properly, and it looks normal with ifconfig. However, I cannot reach any place on the network, I get network unreachable errors. Also, the following lines loop in /var/log/messages: kernel: prism54_hostapd - len=48 kernel: eth1: Caught WPA drop unencrypted request kernel: prism54_hostapd - len=48 kernel: eth1: Caught WPA supplicant set WPA IE request kernel: eth1: WPA IE Attachment was set The green light on the card is on, and the yellow data light flashes, but pinging other systems on the lan results in: Destination host unreachable I do have a default route set to 192.168.0.1 which is my router. I bet if I downgrade this system to 9.3 again, the wireless will work again with the same configuration I have. Is wireless still not working at this late stage of 10.0's development? Thanks Michael -- San Francisco, CA
I also notice in syslog that when the card is brought up, the firmware gets loaded properly, but then it resets the card and loads the firmware again one second later. If it got loaded properly the first time, why do it again immediately? Does anyone have a Netgear WG511 card working properly under 10.0? Thanks Michael -- San Francisco, CA
I found a workaround. I added "PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to the ifcfg-wlan file and now my WG511 card is working. Michael -- San Francisco, CA
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Michael Nelson