Wireless Connection Freezes, Then Can't Detect Any Network Devices

Morning, all.

I'm having trouble keeping my wireless network connection up. Machine boots up fine, connection works but after about 30 minutes, the wireless connection drops out and any attempt to intervene (Knetwork Manager, Yast) fails. Graphical Yast simply won't launch. If I try to launch Yast from the CLI it freezes on detect network devices.

The USB device is a Belkin F5D7050, as listed in the OpenSuse HCL, but I don't think this is vendor-specific issue. I was having the same trouble with the A-Link adapter (on HCL also).

I'm guessing it's a conflict between the ethernet connection and the wireless connection. Other machines in the house using the same wireless router work fine.

Can I not have the two connections (eth and wlan) up and running at the same time? I'm working on an ethernet device management tool but use wlan for the internet, so I'd like to have both doors open.


Environment is AMD 64-Bit, OpenSuse 10.3

Any ideas welcome!

Mark

My understanding is that you can have them both active provided they're on different subnets e.g. 10.0.0.22 on one and 192.168.1.3 on the other.

Swerdna

My understanding is that you can have them both active provided they're on different subnets e.g. 10.0.0.22 on one and 192.168.1.3 on the other.

Swerdna
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Hmmm ... good point. Will try with separate subnets.

Thanks for the swift reply.

Mark

That seems to have sorted it. Wireless seems to be staying up fine.
Thanks again.

That seems to have sorted it. Wireless seems to be staying up fine.
Thanks again.

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I'm a bit surprised that it locked up Yast. One for me to remember for others with that problem