11.3 MS6 no network configured

Hello,

I installed Milestone6 on a ASPIRE 8920 notebook.
It was a fresh install.

My problem: no configuration for wlan0 or eth0 .
Starting knetworkmanager manually gives
me configuration deactivated from knetworkmanager.

From yast I am unable to start network config.

Module iwlagn is started.

I encountered one problem during installation:
the reboot did not finish and I turned off the notebook.
(installation continued without problems)

Anyone with an idea or the same problem?

MfG

Stefan Arndt

from a console as root enter NetworkManager
then as user enter/usr/bin/solid-network set networking enabled

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600576#c6

Hi
I found I had to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network/config file and change
the use NetworkManager option to a yes and restart the nm-applet. I
would also run SuSEconfig after the manual change.

Yes, yast2 lan appears to be busted…


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6 (i586) Kernel 2.6.34-rc5-6-desktop
up 0:34, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 2.90, 2.66
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

Thanks for your help.

Everything works, changed the file, hopefully
next reboot it works automatically.

MfG

Stefan Arndt

Sounds like you have either a wireless connection, or a wired-with-password connection (and in both cases, Network Manager’s defaults leave you high and dry). This bug has been in the past two milestones (back at least to M4).

Hi,

yes I have a wireless connection.

Thanks again for the help

Stefan Arndt

— Comment #10 from Michal Zugec <mzugec@novell.com> 2010-04-30 07:25:23 UTC —
This was fixed in yast2-network-2.19.25
You can wait for next relese or download from
Index of /repositories/YaST:/Head/openSUSE_Factory/i586

I booted the 11.3 M6 64-bit liveCD on my 64-bit Dell Studio 1537, Intel P8400 w/4GB, w/ATI Radeon 3450HD graphics.

Sound just worked. Graphics booted with the Radeon open source driver (as evident in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file). The graphics came up with special desktop effects and was impressive. I had seen this behaviour before in M4.

Setting up the wireles Network was finicky. Not sure how easy it is to reproduce, but I suspect painful. I note that YaST > Network Devices > Networksettings does not work. No GUI is launched.

I tried to configure the wireless Network manager in the lower right corner, initially with no luck. Then I noted if I tried to configure two instances of the wireless Network manager in the lower right corner, it would either work, or it would crash, offering to restart. Upon restarting the wireless Network would then connect. Most bizarre, but I do have wireless working. Wireless on this laptop is an Intel Wireless 5300 AGN.

Ditto.

It’s fixable of course, by downloading/updating the corrected

yast2-network<newer-version>.rpm.

But, then it gets worse, if you have WPA2-encryption…
it won’t connect at all.
[Seeing that same bug in Kubuntu 10.04.]

Clearly, the network-mgr code being shipped in KDE 4.4.2 wasn’t tested at all. >:)

On 04/30/2010 06:56 PM, cookdav wrote:
>
> Ditto.
>
> It’s fixable of course, by downloading/updating the corrected
>
> yast2-network<newer-version>.rpm.
>
> But, then it gets worse, if you have WPA2-encryption…
> it won’t connect at all.
> [Seeing that same bug in Kubuntu 10.04.]
>
> Clearly, the network-mgr code being shipped in KDE 4.4.2 wasn’t tested
> at all. >:)

The above statement is not true. I’m connected right now using the
x86_64 version of KDE 4.4.2 using WPA2. I am using the new version of
yast2-network.

I also connected with WPA2 encryption with the above rather nebulous hack/work around of forcing a restart of the Network app (albeit with the old version of yast2-network).

I had the same problem on an old ASUS M5200N and on a Sony FW11E laptop. Installing wicd solved the problem on both.