so let me sum this up for you,
openSUSE 11.0
KDE 3.5
ok. my wireless network is completely random. it’s ridiculous. in knetworkmanager yer supposed’a be able to enable/disable it, but most of the time i’s just disabled and I can’t enable it with the manager. most of the time it’s like this,
lolwabbit:~ # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lolwabbit:~ # lspci |grep w
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
lolwabbit:~ # lsmod |grep iwl4965
iwl4965 139364 0
firmware_class 27776 2 microcode,iwl4965
mac80211 220436 1 iwl4965
lolwabbit:~ # dhcpcd wlan0
err, wlan0: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
lolwabbit:~ # iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
lolwabbit:~ # ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
lolwabbit:~ # ifup wlan0
Network interface is managed from NetworkManager
NetworkManager will be advised to set up wlan0
but it cannot be assured from here.
here’s my 70.persistent-net.rules,
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it,as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169)
# PCI device 0x8086:0x4229 (iwl4965)
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it,as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169)
# PCI device 0x8086:0x4229 (iwl4965)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:e0:c6:50:29", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:09:df:81:0c:2e", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
I’ve tried removing the latter lines, but when I reboot they get added automatically so I guess they are supposed to be like that. or? I have no idea. this is way above my wireless skills (none). PLEASE help. I need the wireless working on this as it is the computer I use at my technical university college.