intel wireless 2200BG won't connect

I just installed suse 10.1 on my laptop and I can't get it to connect to my
wireless. i checked the firmware and it was up to date. everything seems
fine when i try to configure it through yast but it wont connect to the
network. a dialog keeps popping up asking for my WEP key, but the key does
nothing. everytime i try and connect the activation window opens up, gets
to the ip config stage and then just stops. any ideas?

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I had the same problem with SuSE 10.0. I tried using ndiswrapper but
couldn't figure that out at all. Finally wiped and installed OpenSuSE
10.2 and it works fine (so far...).

ryan_courreges@hotmail.com wrote:

> I just installed suse 10.1 on my laptop and I can't get it to connect to
> my wireless. i checked the firmware and it was up to date. everything
> seems fine when i try to configure it through yast but it wont connect to
> the network. a dialog keeps popping up asking for my WEP key, but the key
> does nothing. everytime i try and connect the activation window opens up,
> gets to the ip config stage and then just stops. any ideas?

Do you have the wpa_supplicant package installed?

Cheers,

-G-

> I had the same problem with SuSE 10.0. I tried using ndiswrapper but
> couldn't figure that out at all. Finally wiped and installed OpenSuSE
> 10.2 and it works fine (so far...).
>

I spoke too soon. My wireless connection only works on an unsecured
network. :-/

Doug Black wrote:
>> I had the same problem with SuSE 10.0. I tried using ndiswrapper but
>> couldn't figure that out at all. Finally wiped and installed OpenSuSE
>> 10.2 and it works fine (so far...).
>>
>
> I spoke too soon. My wireless connection only works on an unsecured
> network. :-/
>
>

Mine works fine.. worked in 10.0, 10.1 and now 10.2. Not using ndiswrapper.

Just fyi... (Dell M70 with Intel 2200BG)

Occasionally, the module doesn't load right... so I simply
rcnetwork stop;modprobe -r ipw2200;modprobe ipw2200;rcnetwork start

I don't use NetworkManager (because it's primitive and makes WAY too
many assumptions).

Is there an easy way to switch between wireless networks without
reconfiguring the interface each time?

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:18:52 GMT
Doug Black <doug.black@osumc.edu> wrote:

> Is there an easy way to switch between wireless networks without
> reconfiguring the interface each time?
Hi
Try wifi-radar.

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Doug Black wrote:
> Is there an easy way to switch between wireless networks without
> reconfiguring the interface each time?

I use Kinternet to manage multiple network connections.