On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Mark Misulich
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:23 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 08:59 -0400, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I decided to upgrade from Opensuse 11.1 to 11.3 on my Toshiba U505-S2950 laptop. I have completed the installation with kde 4 but can't get my wireless to work.
I installed the Realtek linux wireless driver for the Realtek rtl8192se as I did in OS-11.1, but the wireless won't work. I checked that the kernel module is loaded using
~lsmod | grep r8192
and get the result
r8192se_pci 538978 0
I then did
#modprobe r9192se_pci
I configured the wlan in Yast>Network Settings>Wlan0 and am using the Traditional method with ifup.
I find that not using the traditional method is better when using wireless.
I am able to scan for networks in yast, and selected my network and typed in the security code. But it doesn't bring up the internet after the yast module closes.
I tried then to use the User controlled with NetworkManager option. I can start knetworkmanager before I switch to "User Controlled with Network Manager," and I see the knetworkmanager icon in the kicker panel. After I switch to "User...Network Manager" from "Traditional...ifup" everything on the yast network settings panel grays-out, and the kicker panel taskbar Network Manager icon goes away and is not visible anymore.
I wonder if, after enabling the NetworkManager method in Yast, you should log out/in. Maybe it only starts when it is enabled when you log in.
I did actually shut the laptop off a couple of times and rebooted it before I wrote this post, as I had some other duties to attend to. The wireless won't work either before or after. I also tried to run in console
#ifup wlan0
and that didn't do anything either.
What happens in the KNetworkManager when you select from the system tray? There is a tick mark to enable wireless there. After you do that, the access points that are found should be displayed.
I had copied the knetwork manager icon from the kmenu to the desktop and tried to start the knetwork manager both when I was using ifup and when I had configured to use the network manager.
When I try to start the knetwork manager if traditional mode, the icon appears in the kicker panel but I can't get any kind of a drop down list or a dialog window to appear.
When I try to start the knetworkmanager in Networkmanager mode, there is no icon in the tray to click on. The icon goes away.
Quoting someone else: == Goto /var/lib/NetworkManager and delete NetworkManager.status. Do a rcnetwork restart. NM should now work. == This is really becoming a FAQ. I don't know if it's on the wiki or not. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org