* Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf@gmail.com> [10-19-11 09:19]:
On woensdag 19 oktober 2011 14:36:36 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
ifup wlan0: wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) command 'iwconfig wlan0 power off' returned Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. wlan0 warning: wpa_supplicant already running on interface
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Note that wlan0 does get an inet6 address but not inet4 ????
This is known problem and has to do with ifup not ignoring an error when setting power saving options. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716652
Has been fixed, but I don't know whether it is in factory yet.
It is not in 12.1b1 but editing /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 works. I now have: ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:D9:44:2C:5C inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:d9ff:fe44:2c5c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8846 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2076963 (1.9 Mb) TX bytes:9330 (9.1 Kb) thanks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org