Another Wireless not Working Post

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Hey, I followed what I could of the “Primer on wireless issues” post and here’s what I get:
/sbin/lspci

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
08:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

and
/sbin/lspci -n

02:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 03)
08:00.0 0280: 168c:002b (rev 01)

and
/usr/sbin/iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

and
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     Failed to read scan data : Network is down

I’ve tried using yast to delete the configuration for the wireless adapter, but it says it’s controlled by “Network Manager” and won’t let me do anything. I’ve also installed Wicd in preference over network manager, but it still says that no wireless networks are detected.

I’m new to openSUSE so please be nice to me, I really love everything about it minus the whole wireless mess.

Any help to get it up and running would be great.

Edit–Added hardware configuration

HP Pavilion dv5
openSUSE 11.3 with KDE
AMD Turion Dual-Core

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/sbin/lspci -nnk
would be more help

Getting Your Wireless to Work

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As asked for:
/sbin/lspci -nnk

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:144e]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3040]
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
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The driver is in place, as I suspected.

Check the guide I linked you to.
Make sure your wireless switch is ON.

Open a su - terminal and do

zypper in rfkill

Once that’s do do

rfkill unblock all
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Now this is going to sound stupid, but how do I switch it to on?

6

Is there a hardware switch on your laptop?
Or, since NetworkManger is running things, there should be a blue “N” in your tray that allows you to click and toggle wireless.

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There is a keyboard key, but when I press it nothing happens. And actually, Wicd is running things, so I don’t see a blue N :frowning:

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Usually there is a small toggle switch on the front edge of a laptop

9

I finally got it working by switching to traditional ifup method, deleting the device configuration and restarting.

10

Great news

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Thanks for all your help!