At a certain location I have worked with the wireless network when using openSUSE 11.3.
Then I upgraded to openSUSE 11.4.
After this I do not see the AP in knetworkmanager anymore. Also not when scanning.
I tried it with a notebook and a netbook. (And the netbook saw it when 11.3 was installed on it.)
On the notebook Windows detects the network.
My nokia N900 running Debian detects the wireless network also.
As far as I know, nobody else has a problem with detecting the WiFi network.
Untill now I did mind very much, but I have to work more often there and this makes it awkward.
I do not find this likely, because the netbook did work. Also this is the only place -that I know of- that it does not work. All other places I work I do not have a problem connecting to WiFi.
What could be of importance: I just saw that the WiFi network does have two access points.
It would have been helpful if we knew what kind of device you have as shown by
the ‘/sbin/lspci -nnk’. Please post that output.
I can not post with an attachment, so here is the output:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e008]
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
On 06/17/2011 01:06 PM, CecilWesterhof wrote:
>
> lwfinger;2354578 Wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 08:36 AM, CecilWesterhof wrote:
>>>
>>> What could be the problem?
>>
>> It likely is a problem with missing firmware. Check the output of the
>> dmesg command.
>
> I do not find this likely, because the netbook did work. Also this is
> the only place -that I know of- that it does not work. All other places
> I work I do not have a problem connecting to WiFi.
>
> What could be of importance: I just saw that the WiFi network does have
> two access points.
OK, we now know that your device uses ath5k as the driver.
Your information is hard to understand. Does the wireless on this computer work
anywhere?
Does your statement that the wifi network has two access points come from scan
output, or what do you mean? If ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ shows your AP, then
you might have a configuration problem. The other possibility is that the AP is
incompatible with ath5k, but I doubt that.
Yes, all the other places I work with WiFi (not much, about five) I can work with WiFi. With my netbook (an Aspire one) I could work with WiFi when openSUSE 11.3 was installed on it. After the upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4 a scan with knetworkmanager shows nothing.
Does your statement that the wifi network has two access points come from scan
output, or what do you mean? If ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ shows your AP, then
you might have a configuration problem. The other possibility is that the AP is
incompatible with ath5k, but I doubt that.
I used my Nokia to get info about the network that I did not see. This showed that there were two access points. I am now working without a problem (on another location) with WiFI. When I do a scan here, I see that there is only one access point.
I just did an iwscan list. This gives:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Device or resource busy
I did the same when I was on the location where it did not work, and if I remember well I had the same output.
On 06/17/2011 04:36 PM, CecilWesterhof wrote:
>
> lwfinger;2354640 Wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 01:06 PM, CecilWesterhof wrote:
>>>
>>> lwfinger;2354578 Wrote:
>> Your information is hard to understand. Does the wireless on this
>> computer work
>> anywhere?
>
> Yes, all the other places I work with WiFi (not much, about five) I can
> work with WiFi. With my netbook (an Aspire one) I could work with WiFi
> when openSUSE 11.3 was installed on it. After the upgrade from 11.3 to
> 11.4 a scan with knetworkmanager shows nothing.
>
>> Does your statement that the wifi network has two access points come
>> from scan
>> output, or what do you mean? If ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ shows your
>> AP, then
>> you might have a configuration problem. The other possibility is that
>> the AP is
>> incompatible with ath5k, but I doubt that.
>
> I used my Nokia to get info about the network that I did not see. This
> showed that there were two access points. I am now working without a
> problem (on another location) with WiFI. When I do a scan here, I see
> that there is only one access point.
>
> I just did an iwscan list. This gives:
>> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
>>
>> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
>>
>> wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Device or resource busy
>
> I did the same when I was on the location where it did not work, and if
> I remember well I had the same output.
When you get the “Device or resource busy” message, that means that
NetworkManager is doing a scan at that time. If you wait a few seconds, you
should be able to resubmit the scan and get results.
Please post the scan information for the site that is giving you problems.