http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551862 User bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551862#c2 Bruno Canning <bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com --- Comment #2 from Bruno Canning <bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com> 2009-11-05 15:49:33 MST --- Hi There, I've been having the same problem with different hardware. Here are my hardware details: PC: HP Compaq NX6110 CPU: Intel Celeron M 1.4 GHz RAM: 512 MiB Graphics: Intel 915 GM WiFi: Intel PRO 2200BG Lan: Broadcom BCM4401 These are my system details: OS: Linux 2.6.31.5-0.1-default i686 System: openSUSE 11.2 RC2 (i586) 32 bit, Build0339 KDE: 4.3.1 "release 6" Here are my network details: Belkin ASDL Modem/Router F5D7633-4 UK SSID hidden?: No Security?: WPA-PSK TKIP Passphrase? 18 character random combination of mixed case letters, numbers and special characters. These are my symptoms: KDE4 Network Manager will not connect to a wireless network. On booting and logging into KDE4, the connected ethernet connection is picked up and activated. I can surf the web and ping a remote computer on the internet. Upon unplugging the ethernet connection and pressing my laptop's wireless activation button, the wireless LED flashes periodically (means wireless card is active but not connected). I went over to KDE4 network manager and tried to configure the connection. It detected my home router and a few others in the area and I set up the pass phrase/encryption method and all the rest (just filled in all the boxes on screen). However, when clicking on my network straight from a right-click on NetworkManager in the system tray, nothing seems to happen. No acknowledgement of my clicking by the application, no activation of the connection I had just configured. However, disabling NetworkManager and configuring the wireless connection through YaST got me connected to the internet, I was able to ping a remote computer on the internet. Typing "lspci -vv" in a root shell showed my Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG card was detected and using kernel driver "ipw2200" as per previous installations of openSuSE. On re-enabling NetworkManager in YaST, I still could not connect to a wireless network. This all makes me think it is a NetworkManager and or KDE4NetworkManager issue, not a hardware, firmware or driver issue. So I checked the if there was an update available through YaST. No update to NetworkManager (0.7.1_git20090811-4.2) itself was available but there was an update for NetworkManager-kde4 (to 0.9.svn1043876-1.1.1) This is not the version that shipped with openSUSE 11.2 RC2 (i586) 32 bit, Build0339, I don't have that version number anymore as a result of the update. So I tried to connect wirelessly to my home network and still no improvement, even after restarting. Then I deleted the wireless network configuration and started again. However, on completing the configuration, I was asked by KDE4 wallet to supply the password again. Upon doing so, the connection got activated and I now have wireless network handled through KDE4NetworkManager. So this leads me to believe it is an issue with KDE wallet storing the passwords and/or KDE4NetworkManager retriving it. I was not asked by KDE wallet for the password on the first occasion. I remember that this is how wireless in openSUSE 10.3 worked. I found it to be a rather clumsy solution that didn't always work (although this was rare) but was certainly slow to connect. I really welcomed the move to 11.0 (which I'm still using) as KNetworkManager and NetworkManager were vastly improved and KNetworkManager seemed to not to need KDE wallet for password storage. Any chance this could be reinstated? If you want me to run through this again and copy log file outputs/run diagnostics so you can find out exactly where things are going wrong, I'd be happy to do so, just tell me what you need. I'm happy to help out in any way on this issue. I'd also urge you to try the same thing on any hardware you have available (any laptop with a linux-friendly wireless card will do), just to see for yourself as I'd say it's very important to fix this before 11.2 goes to GM. Please also let me know if you need anymore info. All the best... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.