https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279462#c15
--- Comment #15 from William Cattey 2007-08-08 11:38:31 MST ---
I'm getting progressively more confused by the behavior of the wireless on this
system.
First off, I'll re-confirm that the kill switch is NOT engaged.
Let me see if I can document my woes today.
I went online and looked at your message to determine what information I needed
to gather. I looked in /etc/sysconfig/network and there was ONLY
ifcfg-eth-id-00:15:58:7e:f3:93 which is extremely odd, since that's the MAC
address of the hardwired card, and I was LIVE with the wireless card.
I started up control panel, but it was taking forever to bring anything up.
Finally the panel came up and it said that the wireless interface I'd
heretofore been using was present but not configured. I aborted the network
card tool, and sure enough, I could not pass bits. The wireless card showed 4
bars, but nothing was reachable.
I re-ran the network card configuration tool, told it to configure the wireless
device. Told it to configure it at boot up, not when the wire was plugged in.
(Why it should default to plug-in for a WIRELESS card, I cannot guess.)
And clicked through next, next, next, etc. ... finish.
The networking icon in the panel did its "searching" thing, and came up "X", no
network. I tried a couple times more. (Mind you, I'm sitting in a conference
room with two other colleagues who have IBM T60p hardware. They're running
windows, and they're having NO connectivity problem with the wireless hub in
the room.)
Eventually it gives sup. "X" no network.
I re-run the configuraiton tool. Same problem.
I left-click on the networking icon and choose, "Connect to other wireless
network". I type "MIT", the network I've already specified as the SSID in the
configuration. The icon disappears out of the panel.
I re-run the configuration tool. No joy.
I re-re-run the configuration tool. The icon shows back up, and I again say,
"Connect to other wireless network". It spins for a while and gives up.
I close the top, and move the computer to another location near a different
wireless hub. Now the computer sees two networks, "MIT", and "MIT-Outdoor".
I re-re-re select MIT, and now I have connectivity again.
I look in /etc/sysconfig/network, and there is ifcfg-wlan-id-00:19:d2:28:50:52
as we all would expect.
At the moment, I only have the one interface showing up, but my confidence in
the wireless configuration of SuSE SLED 10 SP 1 is completely gone.
I will attach the log files you requested. Perhaps you can make sense of what
is going on.
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