yesterday i’ve installed openSuse 11.2 on my laptop (dell studio 15).
Today at work i tried to connect to the wireless network, but i couldn’t. First, the network card wasn’t being recognized, but after a long time trying i was able to set it up, for this i used this command:
zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
So now, the networkmanager detects all the networks around, but i cannot (or i don’t know how to) connect to any. I’ve also tried to configure my connections with yast, but i have the same result.
Here are the result for some commands:
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
eth0 no wireless extensions.
On 01/12/2010 12:56 PM, jasv wrote:
>
> Hi everyone…
>
> yesterday i’ve installed openSuse 11.2 on my laptop (dell studio 15).
> Today at work i tried to connect to the wireless network, but i
> couldn’t. First, the network card wasn’t being recognized, but after a
> long time trying i was able to set it up, for this i used this command:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
> --------------------
>
>
> So now, the networkmanager detects all the networks around, but i
> cannot (or i don’t know how to) connect to any. I’ve also tried to
> configure my connections with yast, but i have the same result.
>
> Here are the result for some commands:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> # iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
> Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Managementmode:All packets received
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> # lspci
> …
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
> …
>
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Cell 10 - Address: 00:1D:7E:63:35:2D
> ESSID:“MYJOBWIRELESS”
> Mode:Managed
> Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> Quality:5/5 Signal level:-49 dBm Noise level:-85 dBm
> Encryption key:on
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
> 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
> 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
>
> --------------------
>
>
> I think i’m close to get this done, but i’m on a rush, so i need some
Do you have the latest updates? The original 11.2 had some problems that are
mostly corrected. With NM, you need toi use the “Manage Connections” option in
the applet. Putting in an encryption secret from the popup still does not work.
so how can i get the lastest updates? maybe it’s a stupid question, but i’m too newbie on linux. I remember yesterday i installed some updates… how can i be sure??
Also, i’ve been using “Manage Coneections” option with NM, i added a wireless connection but it doesn’t work, when i click on accept button it shows me another popup window where i do the same stuff.
On 01/12/2010 01:56 PM, jasv wrote:
>
>
> And now i have access… any ideas why this hapenned???
It may be that you got the configuration right with ifup, and not with NM. It
may also be that you don’t have the latest NM. Use YaST => Software => Online
Update and get all the latest except for a new kernel. As you are using an
out-of-kernel driver, it will need to be rebuilt and reinstalled every time the
kernel changes.
If you have disabled NM, and managed to get wireless to work then it must be a fault of NM. Try installing WICD, it works much better, under ifup, than networkmanager, and gives you all the normal wireless options (different APs etc).
