* Duaine Hechler [11-01-12 23:01]:

On 11/01/2012 09:55 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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I am having a major problem getting this wireless adapter to work under 12.2 with a network that is using WPA2-PSK.

Basically, I can not get connected to this network.

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Apologies, if this was sent twice - my internet connection went down in the middle of sending. On 11/01/2012 10:03 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Duaine Hechler [11-01-12 23:01]:

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On 11/01/2012 09:55 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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I am having a major problem getting this wireless adapter to work under 12.2 with a network that is using WPA2-PSK.

Basically, I can not get connected to this network. Third time is the charm?

Hopefully this will help......... YAST2 sees it and configures it with driver rtl8192cu. And is configured with WPA-PSK and the right key but I still can not connect. Other laptops with the built-in WIFI works with the same configuration (of course, different driver) I even downloaded, compiled and installed the driver from RealTech (sp?) website - driver 8192cu - and still no connection. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/02/2012 06:48 AM, Markus Koßmann wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 23:31:26 schrieb Duaine Hechler:

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Apologies, if this was sent twice - my internet connection went down in the middle of sending. On 11/01/2012 10:03 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Duaine Hechler [11-01-12 23:01]:

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On 11/01/2012 09:55 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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I am having a major problem getting this wireless adapter to work under 12.2 with a network that is using WPA2-PSK.

Basically, I can not get connected to this network. Third time is the charm? Hopefully this will help.........

YAST2 sees it and configures it with driver rtl8192cu. And is configured with WPA-PSK and the right key but I still can not connect.

Other laptops with the built-in WIFI works with the same configuration (of course, different driver)

I even downloaded, compiled and installed the driver from RealTech (sp?) website - driver 8192cu - and still no connection. The rtl8192cu needs firmware. Did you install the kernel-firmware package ? That should provide /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin.

Yes, the kernel-firmware is installed.

If that doesn't solve your problem ,please have a look into /var/log/messages and show us the relevant messages from the8192cu driver. Magically, somehow I played with enough settings, it is now working.

Can the network settings get confused then finally do the right thing ? Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/03/2012 02:01 PM, JtWdyP wrote:

It would appear that on Nov 1, Duaine Hechler did say:

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I am having a major problem getting this wireless adapter to work under 12.2 with a network that is using WPA2-PSK.

Basically, I can not get connected to this network. Without a lot more details the smart tech gurus won't be able to offer much help. But there is something that occurs to me because when I first installed OpenSuSE 12.2 on my laptop I had a heck of a time getting it to connect to my WPA2-PSK protected network via a usb wireless adapter...

The odds of the problem {and it's solution} being the same are not very high. But I'll tell you what worked for me, and you can decide if it's worth a try.

Part of my problem may have had something to do with my laptop's built-in wireless adapter that I wasn't ever able to make work, and so disabled in the bios settings. And I'm pretty sure part of it is "Network Manager".

With my other Linux, my solution was to ditch "Network Manager" and use wicd. But none of them had yast.

To get OpenSuSE to connect via my usb wireless card, I had to fire up yast2 where I found a choice {I think it was in the network options} to let yast manage my connection. It said something about needing to disable "Network Manager" and use a traditional ifup method. After that I could connect.

I don't know what it is about "Network Manager" that I can't connect with it via my usb wireless adapter with any of the half dozen Linux distros I've connected with at one time or another using the same hardware and different network management software.

Don't know if your problem is like mine. But if your configuring your wireless connection correctly, using the correct PSK, an so forth, just maybe all you need to do is ditch "Network Manager". And with this distro I'd recommend doing that via yast2...

Of course YMMV and all that... Good luck.

All seems to be working off and on - meaning I can get it to work then if it going idle I get a wlan0 timeout message. How can I keep this from happening ? Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/05/2012 03:59 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

On 11/05/2012 12:07 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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All seems to be working off and on - meaning I can get it to work then if it going idle I get a wlan0 timeout message. How can I keep this from happening ?

Funny, I just recently installed an ASUS USB-N13 adapter with the same rtl8192 chipset. I also have twice now since yesterday morning, had it loose its brains. Access point not associated. I had also been having what I found to be poor signal quality problems in my house that I thought were corrected until this started. I was starting to think maybe I hadn't resolved that well enough. Now I see someone else with the same sort of problem. Whew! Sorry, but I went through hell figuring out that first signal quality problem. So maybe I'm seeing the same thing as you. If I figure it out, I'll repost. This is on an 11.4 box running a 3.2.18 kernel.,

Mark

Mark, You might try what I finally found on the internet. It said to disable the "dhcpcd" and just run "dhcp-client". So far in my "small short" test - that worked. Although, you will have to tell it to "break" some dependencies - which so far is harmless. Regards, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/06/2012 06:50 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

On 11/05/2012 05:55 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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On 11/05/2012 03:59 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

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On 11/05/2012 12:07 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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All seems to be working off and on - meaning I can get it to work then if it going idle I get a wlan0 timeout message. How can I keep this from happening ?

Funny, I just recently installed an ASUS USB-N13 adapter with the same rtl8192 chipset. I also have twice now since yesterday morning, had it loose its brains. Access point not associated. I had also been having what I found to be poor signal quality problems in my house that I thought were corrected until this started. I was starting to think maybe I hadn't resolved that well enough. Now I see someone else with the same sort of problem. Whew! Sorry, but I went through hell figuring out that first signal quality problem. So maybe I'm seeing the same thing as you. If I figure it out, I'll repost. This is on an 11.4 box running a 3.2.18 kernel.,

Mark

Mark,

You might try what I finally found on the internet.

It said to disable the "dhcpcd" and just run "dhcp-client". So far in my "small short" test - that worked. Although, you will have to tell it to "break" some dependencies - which so far is harmless.

Regards, Duaine

Didn't help me. I decided to put mine in another box running 12.2 and now it's even worse. Within a minute or so it stops communicating. iwconfig still shows a valid access point and signal strength 70/70. No errors show up in ifconfig or iwconfig. It's like it just goes out to lunch and won't start working again until I reboot. Even restarting the network does not bring it back to life.

On this other machine, I'm using 12.2 and a 3.6.2 kernel using its built in rtl8192 driver. Did you say you were running the driver from the Real-Tek site?

Mark I believe I compiled it as a last resort. However, I think I was running the kernel driver.

Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/06/2012 03:33 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

On 11/06/2012 01:51 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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You might try what I finally found on the internet.

It said to disable the "dhcpcd" and just run "dhcp-client". So far in my "small short" test - that worked. Although, you will have to tell it to "break" some dependencies - which so far is harmless.

Regards, Duaine

Didn't help me. I decided to put mine in another box running 12.2 and now it's even worse. Within a minute or so it stops communicating. iwconfig still shows a valid access point and signal strength 70/70. No errors show up in ifconfig or iwconfig. It's like it just goes out to lunch and won't start working again until I reboot. Even restarting the network does not bring it back to life.

On this other machine, I'm using 12.2 and a 3.6.2 kernel using its built in rtl8192 driver. Did you say you were running the driver from the Real-Tek site?

Mark

I believe I compiled it as a last resort. However, I think I was running the kernel driver.

Duaine

Duaine, are you still having troubles?

Mark I'm not sure, the laptop was for my son and he has not used it since I made the change.

Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler@att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:00:07 +1300, Duaine Hechler wrote:

On 11/06/2012 06:31 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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On 11/06/2012 03:33 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

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On 11/06/2012 01:51 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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You might try what I finally found on the internet.

It said to disable the "dhcpcd" and just run "dhcp-client". So far in my "small short" test - that worked. Although, you will have to tell it to "break" some dependencies - which so far is harmless.

Regards, Duaine

Didn't help me. I decided to put mine in another box running 12.2 and now it's even worse. Within a minute or so it stops communicating. iwconfig still shows a valid access point and signal strength 70/70. No errors show up in ifconfig or iwconfig. It's like it just goes out to lunch and won't start working again until I reboot. Even restarting the network does not bring it back to life.

On this other machine, I'm using 12.2 and a 3.6.2 kernel using its built in rtl8192 driver. Did you say you were running the driver from the Real-Tek site?

Mark

I believe I compiled it as a last resort. However, I think I was running the kernel driver.

Duaine

Duaine, are you still having troubles?

Mark I'm not sure, the laptop was for my son and he has not used it since I made the change.

Duaine

I'm still having trouble with this adapter (with AT&T Uverse Gateway Box)

What are some recommendations from the group ? (I'm trying to stay away from those that have a real antenna (that stick up in the air)

TIA, Duaine

Try updating openssl and all the libopenssls, I had a similar problem with an rtl8187 and this seems to have solved it. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:05:31 +1300, Duaine Hechler wrote:

On 11/08/2012 08:21 PM, Michael Ayers wrote:

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:00:07 +1300, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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On 11/06/2012 06:31 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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On 11/06/2012 03:33 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote:

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On 11/06/2012 01:51 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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>> >> You might try what I finally found on the internet. >> >> It said to disable the "dhcpcd" and just run "dhcp-client". So >> far in my "small short" test - that worked. Although, you will >> have to tell it to "break" some dependencies - which so far is >> harmless. >> >> Regards, Duaine >> > Didn't help me. I decided to put mine in another box running 12.2 > and now it's even worse. Within a minute or so it stops > communicating. iwconfig still shows a valid access point and > signal strength 70/70. No errors show up in ifconfig or iwconfig. > It's like it just goes out to lunch and won't start working again > until I reboot. Even restarting the network does not bring it back > to life. > > On this other machine, I'm using 12.2 and a 3.6.2 kernel using its > built in rtl8192 driver. Did you say you were running the driver > from the Real-Tek site? > > Mark

I believe I compiled it as a last resort. However, I think I was running the kernel driver.

Duaine

Duaine, are you still having troubles?

Mark I'm not sure, the laptop was for my son and he has not used it since I made the change.

Duaine

I'm still having trouble with this adapter (with AT&T Uverse Gateway Box)

What are some recommendations from the group ? (I'm trying to stay away from those that have a real antenna (that stick up in the air)

TIA, Duaine

Try updating openssl and all the libopenssls, I had a similar problem with an rtl8187 and this seems to have solved it.

Mike

I'm on 12.2 and both ssl's are on 1.0.1c-2.1.3. However, libopenssl 0.9.8x-1.1.2 is still installed.

Would that make a difference ?

Duaine

I grabbed 1.0.1c-5.2. from the factory repo. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:33:06 +0100 Philipp Thomas wrote:

Folks, seven levels of full quote only show your disregard of common netiquette and your laziness in trimming down quotes to the minimum needed.

+1 Two pages of quotes for one sentence of information. It is not actually that bad compared to some other. I'm looking how to filter messages where quotation presents 90% of the text. I'll loose some mails that I would like to read anyway, but there will be no more 2-10 pages with one "+1" at the end.

Philipp

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On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 08:59 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Rajko [11-11-12 03:03]:

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:33:06 +0100 Philipp Thomas wrote:

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Folks, seven levels of full quote only show your disregard of common netiquette and your laziness in trimming down quotes to the minimum needed. +1 Two pages of quotes for one sentence of information. It is not actually that bad compared to some other. I'm looking how to filter messages where quotation presents 90% of the text. I'll loose some mails that I would like to read anyway, but there will be no more 2-10 pages with one "+1" at the end. http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/ hasen't been updated for over a year so I don't know status, but present version works quite well for me using mutt, a *text* email client.

lack of updates doesn't mean a project is dead; it could mean it is just complete. I believe that describes mutt; other than bugfixes and forward porting it is hard to imagine anything new to add.

But filtering does not excuse inconsiderate email habits.

You're best bet would try to come up with a regular expression; but it would be be a gnarly one. Look for lines that start with the ">" character. Don't know if it is work the effort though [and deleting is easy] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:59:02 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote: ...

http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/ ... me using mutt, a *text* email client.

Partick, Thanks for idea, but I don't want to learn much more to be able to use email :) I'm looking at the email as a limited communication medium. It is long story about human communication, but in essence you are forced to compensate with text for lack of other media. Spammers, crackers, flawed protocols, lack of editors etc, made us limit communication to text only, even when we would be able to embed audio and images, and lack of that just helps to have more of: Communication usually fails, except by accident. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html Important is note: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite being entertaining, Wiio's laws are valid observations about all human communication. For any constructive approach to communication, we need to admit their truth and build upon them, instead of comfortably exercizing illusionary communication. -------------------------------------------------------------------

But filtering does not excuse inconsiderate email habits.

No, but helps not to see those messages. They seldom come from people I have to listen. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org