[opensuse] Wireless connections are not started
Hi, I've installed Opensuse 11.1 on a Dell Latitude E5400 Notebook. There are several problems: 1. Opensuse could not resize the Vista partition. I used kubuntu for that. 2. Opensuse broke the MBR. I had to use the backup to restore it. 3. The main problem is that wireless connections are not started: After the first reboot after installation everything worked fine. I clicked on my ESSID, entered the password and went online after some seconds. After the next reboot it did not work. Clicking on the ESSID in knetworkmanager had no effect. There was no spinning gear as normally. Just the gray globe. Some people on irc mentioned that some upgrades could cause that. Therefore I downgraded everything back to the shipped version. After that the connection worked again. But now I have restarted the machine again and again no connection is established. The strange thing is, that switching to the traditional ifup network mode allows me to go online by the wireless card. The problem only shows with NetworkManager. Unfortunately I switch networks very often and have to use the NetworkManager. Has anyone similar problems and suggestions to resolve the problem? Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Hi,
I've installed Opensuse 11.1 on a Dell Latitude E5400 Notebook. There are several problems:
3. The main problem is that wireless connections are not started:
Christoph, Before we can help we need you to provide a little more information -- like which wireless chipset you are dealing with. Obviously, the response will be a lot different depending on whether you have an Atheros, a Broadcomm, an Intel, etc.... You can either cut and paste the output into an email, or dump the output to a file and attach that. Not to worry, you can get that information very quickly. First, open a terminal like konsole or xterm. Then at the command prompt enter the following (as root, [note: type su and then the password to become root]): lspci If you want to dump the output to a file simply redirect the output into a file (same applies to all commands): lspci > lspci.out The remaining commands we need the output to are: dmidecode hwinfo --netcard hwinfo --network ifconfig If you want to do it all at once, just cut and paste the following into your terminal: for i in lspci dmidecode 'hwinfo --netcard' 'hwinfo --network' ifconfig; do \ $i > "$(echo $i | tr -d ' ').out" \ done The command line above will run each of the commands and save the output of each command in a file named 'command.out' with the spaces removed. Post or attach the output from each command above and then someone familiar with that chipset will be able to help. If it is an Atheros chipset I can help, if not, somebody else will most likely already have the answer;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Hi,
I've installed Opensuse 11.1 on a Dell Latitude E5400 Notebook. There are several problems:
3. The main problem is that wireless connections are not started:
Christoph,
Before we can help we need you to provide a little more information -- like which wireless chipset you are dealing with. Obviously, the response will be a lot different depending on whether you have an Atheros, a Broadcomm, an Intel, etc.... You can either cut and paste the output into an email, or dump the output to a file and attach that.
I've attached the files generated by the for loop. I guess that the hardware works fine because with the traditional scripts the connection is reliable. Only with NetworkManager the problems arise. Christoph
On Friday 13 February 2009 20:08:42 Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Hi,
I've installed Opensuse 11.1 on a Dell Latitude E5400 Notebook. There are several problems:
3. The main problem is that wireless connections are not started:
Christoph,
Before we can help we need you to provide a little more information -- like which wireless chipset you are dealing with. Obviously, the response will be a lot different depending on whether you have an Atheros, a Broadcomm, an Intel, etc.... You can either cut and paste the output into an email, or dump the output to a file and attach that.
I've attached the files generated by the for loop.
I guess that the hardware works fine because with the traditional scripts the connection is reliable.
Only with NetworkManager the problems arise.
The first most interesting thing is the NetworkManager log (/var/log/NetworkManager) from when you try to connect with knetworkmanager. See this guide I wrote to understand how it all works: http://userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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