I am using Suse 11.0 PPC on a Titanium PowerBook G4 Onyx with Gnome. Its easy to connect to my network with the function “Connect to another network…” from the menu bar. Problems are, that i cannot connect through the network configuration of YAST plus, whats more important, i do not get logged in back automatically.
Meaning i always have to go through the “Connect to another network…” and type in my key to connect back at the next Gnome session.
Can anyone help me please?
To make the picture complete, when i am connected and use /usr/sbin/iwconfig to lookup the used values, which are:
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"YyY" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=36/92 Signal level=-61 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
and i use exactly this settings in YAST connection would not work. The only way to connect is via “Use other wireless connection…”
No suggestions anyone? Seems that I as a PPC user am a stepchild here 
have you tried using gnome-keyring to save these values ? if not,you will have to keep inputting the details
btw, i’m not a gnome user, only use it when people have a problem & i wish to recreate it
Andy
I was asked by Gnome if i would allow it to be saved in the keyring and i agreed. i need to check that back in the keyring itself. not at this machine atm.
Seems I am to stupid. Next log on i was not connected automatically again. But strange thing, Gnome asked me for a keyring password. So not knowing what I should type in I used my account password which worked fine. Looking into controlcenter i find some encryption thing but no keyring (sorry i use the German version so translation errors might occur).
Experimenting I found out now, that the only way to connect to my WLAN is the NetworkManager and only if i use “Connect to other wireless network…” well ok the SSID of my network is hidden, but that should not hinder the NetworkManager to connect automaticaly or YAST to connect at all.
I am desperate.
AHA! hidden ESSID!! now you tell us. check out this Additional wireless bits - openSUSE Forums
scroll down to the contribution by prhunt might solve your problem
Andy
First of all, thanks you take your time to try to help me.
Yout hints have been interresting, but they did not help. I also tried to not hide the SSID for a test, which did not help as well. So as I only am able to connect the described way, I am also only able to use WEP. To weak imho but I cant change it.
I am really desperate meanwhile. Having been able to manage to install Suse 11.0 PPC on my PowerBook through some trouble, this is the only thing not working. Not to mention that with YDL it worked – well it was one of the few things working 
hmm, check these steps
1 ) YaST - network devices - network settings - global make sure “user controlled with network manager” is checked
2 ) device is set to activate at boot time
3 ) YaST - system - /etc/sysconfig Editor check the device is set to on boot
if none of these help, i’m fresh out of ideas & maybe someone else can post a few ideas
Andy
Yay Andy, you pushed me in the right direction.
So no changes. Desperate as I was i changed point 1 to “Traditional method with ifup” and … BINGO!
The only thing i miss now is a field strength indicator in the panel 
but i rather life with that then the idea of always connecting by hand. Or… is there a solution for that?
yep, install wifi-radar PackMan :: Package details for wifi-radar or WiFi Radar works better than network manager IMHO
Andy
Oh brother, lets just hope I can get it for PPC. Cause whenever I try to compile something there I miss a handfull of things which I also cannot get. It’s a pain in the ass to be part of a minority.
But i don’t want to complain. Finally they made a Suse 11 PPC and it works smooth on a '92er Apple with 667 Mhz 
making it a more than acceptable office machine again (with about 4 hours battery life). YDL was working but is still very unstable and buggy so I had to give up on that.
Maybe we get some more apps (I still pray for vlc) over the time.
compiling wifi-radar is fairly simple, as a basic rule of thumb, make sure kernel sources/headers,gcc/gcc++, checkinstall & make are installed. Then, read any readme enclosed with the sources/tarball of the program you wish to install. if you want to make an rpm so that YaST can monitor the program,for any updates to it,instead of using make install,use checkinstall. this will make a quick rpm for your system,so you can install via YaST. Any problems compiling, just ask, i’ve done it several times now & can walk you through it ( bit of a CLI fanatic ) or have a look at my own personal reminder, may not be complete, but it helps Stuntmanandys openSUSE/SuSE forum • View topic - Install Tar or bzipped files
Andy
Yeah in genereal I should know that, as the kicked us at the LPI class with that massively. Problem with the PPC version is, that some of the libraries needed are only available in older versions often.
But I definitely will try to compile WiFi radar. But i tell you I did not survive in vlc. After 5 to 6 dependencies which I did install due to that i gave up. That was to much for my nerves. Also on such a weak hardware compiling is not a quicky
hehe, it’s not bad spec, bit like my old laptop,650mhz cpu 256 ram & 20gb hd, got openSUSE11 running on it,albeit a bit slow at times,it works wonderfully
Andy
Maybe I am to stupid, but missing a Phyton library which i cannot find and download for PPC sigh.
hmm, python should be on your install media. if not, have a look here ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse/ppc/ add that to your repo list
Andy
Yes you are right. Python is well there but not PyGTK2.
Meanwhile I am looking for the most simple thing. Something to put in my Gnome panles showing me only the signal strength. But exactly that seems to be to simple for the developers
All things I ever saw are much more extensive.
AAhh, another piece of the puzzle, a Gnome user. Gnome should have a few applets for signal strength, something like gwireless_applet pygtk2 should be part of the development rpm, so,if you install the development files for python it should be included
Andy