[opensuse] Upgrade to kde 4.1.3 killed my wifi
After finding some version mismatches in my 10.3 installation, and not having heard any reasonable-sounding complaints against kde 4.1 recently, I upgraded to 11.1 with kde 4.1.3 a couple of weeks ago. I just ran a successful online update of all packages last night. Since upgrading, I've been unable to connect to any wifi using my primary (suse) desktop -- on my recent trip to Italy, I had to use my windows xp pro installation (this is a dual-boot laptop). The process appears to go normally until it gets to "getting ip address" (I don't have the message in front of me; I'm doing this over my ethernet line), then hangs. The knetworkmanager ball stays gray, saying wireless is disconnected. It shows several essid's, among them the ones that I need. Nothing helps. Possibly useful information: john@embelex:~> dmesg | grep iwl john@embelex:~> dmesg | grep Net john@embelex:~> dmesg | grep net john@embelex:~> dmesg | grep 3945 (above is after ~14hrs on ethernet -- does dmesg delete old messages?) embelex:/var/run/NetworkManager # ls embelex:/var/run/NetworkManager # ps -e | grep iwl 1515 ? 00:00:01 iwl3945/0 1522 ? 00:00:00 iwl3945 7176 ? 00:00:00 iwl3945/1 embelex:/var/run/NetworkManager # ps -e | grep Net 6399 ? 00:00:28 NetworkManager embelex:/var/run/NetworkManager # ps -e | grep net 3222 ? 00:00:00 xinetd 6526 pts/1 00:18:52 knetworkmanager All this looks correct to my unsophisticated eye. Help? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John E. Perry wrote:
After finding some version mismatches in my 10.3 installation, and not having heard any reasonable-sounding complaints against kde 4.1 recently, I upgraded to 11.1 with kde 4.1.3 a couple of weeks ago.
So, I'm regretting having tried to fix things, now. No one responded to this plea (sent on 7/11), and I've been reading from many that 4.2 solved some of the problems with 4.1. So I did the 1-click install thing and clicked on all the dependency resolutions using the vendor change thing. I now have 11.1 running with kde 4.2.4. Things looked really good for a few hours. Then during some of the dozens or hundreds of updates, the kde desktops turned dark gray and wifi stopped working again. Now nothing I do will get me wifi, and I can't even read the many messages I see popping up, because they show up as black on a dark gray background. I was able to get the taskbar more or less readable by switching from the aya theme back to the oxygen theme (why did it change?), but that only worked for applications -- system messages (I suppose that's what they are) still pop up as black on dark gray, and I just have time to dope out things like "kdeupdater" and "knetworkmanager" in the title bar before it disappears. Message text, as far as I can see, is completely invisible. I've found nothing that lets me change the color of the desktop background, or (most urgently) the taskbar color scheme and the system message dialog boxes. The taskbar is fairly readable now, and stays long enough for me to make it out, but the message boxes are too dim and short-lived for me to make anything out. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling 10.3 from scratch? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John E. Perry wrote:
After finding some version mismatches in my 10.3 installation, and not having heard any reasonable-sounding complaints against kde 4.1 recently, I upgraded to 11.1 with kde 4.1.3 a couple of weeks ago. I just ran a successful online update of all packages last night. Since upgrading, I've been unable to connect to any wifi using my primary (suse) desktop ...
So, I decided to try yet again. I did exactly the same thing I've done a dozen times before and since I wrote the above message on 7/11. This time it worked. I opened yast, selected network devices, selected network settings, selected Pro/Wireless 3945abg (or however it's labeled), set it to be managed by NetworkManager, and closed yast. Then I started knetworkmanager, and the gear immediately appeared and started turning. In a few seconds, I had the bars and am now doing this over my wireless. I imagine some of the many updates I've installed since I installed kde4.2.4 did this? If so, thanks to the devs, and to suse for this marvelous yast program. Just wish it had happened sooner. We've had some lovely weather, and I like to do my computing outside on the swing :-). Hopefully the cool, dry will hold, and our usual 90F (35C) with 75%-85% humidity won't come back for a while. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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