aspire 5670 - wireless doesn't work

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Hi everyone, i’m new in Linux. I installed opensuse 11.3 succesfully on my acer aspire 5670 (5672) laptop. Everything works except wireless connection.

Looking for a solution is follewed the " My wireless doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next" guide on this forum. I hope somebody can help me and if more info is needed i’ll add it asap. These are the results i become:

(2) Determine what device you have.:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

(3) What kernel says about it:
8.601218] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, in-tree:ds
8.601222] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
8.601312] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
8.601327] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
8.601347] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
8.660321] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
8.660326] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
8.660445] alloc irq_desc for 30 on node -1
8.660448] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
8.660483] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
8.664226] alloc irq_desc for 22 on node -1
8.664230] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
8.664240] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
8.664320] alloc irq_desc for 31 on node -1
8.664322] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
8.664335] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
8.664378] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64

So i guess i have all the firmware?

(4) results after /usr/sbin/iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

Really hope someone can see what’s wrong and help me.
Thanks in advance

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We need some more info:

Your desktop?
Connect through networkmanager or traditional method (i.e. through the desktop or at boottime?)

One thing I can tell, the card is recognized and should be configurable. It’s just not connected¸ or the wifi is disabled for the desktop.

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Desktop is KDE
connect with traditional method at boottime

Grtz

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someone something?

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georgedewulf wrote:
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> someone something?
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have you gone through YaST - network settings & set it up there with all
the correct details ?

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openSuse seems to default to the traditional method with ifup, even on laptops. This seems to be backwards. If you’re using a laptop and go different places, who wants to go through yast to reconfigure it? The first thing I would do is change it to user controlled with networkmanager.

If everything else is working like you say it is (and with an intel chip that sounds reasonable), you should just have to select the network from the network manager and put your WEP or WPA key in and be done with it. I don’t know why so many are messing with the YAST config with wireless.