Just what does it take to make a wireless setup stick in 11.l

[aemau]

I'v spent the best part of the last three days trying to get a wireless
setup working on a Toshiba laptop.

I can (infrequently) manage to get a connection to my wireless modem but
around 90% of the time wpa_gui won't talk to wpa_supplicant (wpas for
short).

Kwifimanager will often see my modem but does nothing. Network manager is
equally useless.

I can set up the wireless card in Yast with all the correct settings for my
local network but my laptop never connects except manually. The only way I
seem to be able to make a connection is using wpa_gui and then only if I
manually configure it every time. Most of the time it won't see my network
and when it does I usually have to delete any networks found and start
afresh by adding a new network with the correct settings. Wpa_gui then
won't allow me to save the configuration giving a message update_config=1
must be set. I've tried setting this in every wpas.conf file that I can
find but nothing works.

The laptop uses an Intel 5100 and the intel driver (/) has been installed.

I've read all the documentation I could find on wpas and looked at many
articles in the Suse database following their instruction, all to no avail.

I'm about to give up unless someone here can provide a solution. Surely I'm
not expected to make a connection manually every time I want an internet
connection.

Allan

[deano_ferrari]

I'm not sure about answer - not a wireless guru by any means. I know that NetworkManager doesn't play nice using this wireless config. However, can you supply some more info?

Post /var/log/NetworkManager and /var/log/wpa_supplicant output. That may yield clues.

Which wpa_supplicant package version are you running? One of these will get that info:

rpm -qa |grep wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant -v

Have a read of this troubleshooting guide (re NetworkManager) as well:

http://en.opensuse.org/Tracking_down...wpa_supplicant

You may also like to try connecting via wicd (wired and wireless network manager) instead.

Hopefully others can add to this...

[aemau]

deano ferrari wrote:

>
> I'm not sure about answer - not a wireless guru by any means. I know
> that NetworkManager doesn't play nice using this wireless config.
> However, can you supply some more info?
>
> Post /var/log/NetworkManager and /var/log/wpa_supplicant output. That
> may yield clues.
>
> Which wpa_supplicant package version are you running? One of these will
> get that info:
>
> rpm -qa |grep wpa_supplicant
> wpa_supplicant -v
>

I'll have a look at the logs to see if I can find anything.

> Have a read of this troubleshooting guide (re NetworkManager) as well:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Tracking_down...wpa_supplicant
>

I did try to follow those instructions and had it working. My problem is to
have the solution stick so that next time I don't have to go through the
whole process again.

> You may also like to try connecting via wicd (wired and wireless
> network manager) instead.

Will definitely give this a try.